Method: Naturalist performance style which encourages the actor to become the character, at which point the gestures/dialects necessary for the performance will emerge organically: approaches used to achieve this union between actor and character are emotional memory, sense memory and improvisation.

 

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Method: A method is a function that is declared within a class.

Scientific Method: An empirical approach which advocates developing research questions and hypotheses based on an established body of theoretical knowledge, investigating them with replicable methodology, and . . . View Full Definition

Open-Pot Method: Brewing method in which the ground coffee is steeped (not boiled) in an open pot, and separated from the brewed coffee by settling or straining.

Shotgun Method: Sequencing method that involves randomly sequenced cloned pieces of the genome, with no foreknowledge of where the piece originally came from. This can be contrasted with 'directed' strategi . . . View Full Definition

Filter Method: Technically, any brewing method in which water filters through a bed of ground coffee. In popular usage, describes drip method brewers utilizing a paper filter to separate grounds from brewed coffee.

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Christopher Method: The Christopher Method Sound-Wave Energy Therapy was introduced in 1995 and is a non-touch therapy that works on the multiple energy fields of the body to reinforce and release energy, there . . . View Full Definition

Units-Or-Production Depreciation Method: The depreciation method in which the cost of an asset is allocated to each period on the basis of the productive output or use of the asset during the period.

Double-Declining-Balance Depreciation Method (DDB): Method of accelerated depreciation.

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