Other forms: methodologies
A methodology is the system of procedures a study follows. The methodology section, a sound methodology, question the methodology.
In a paper it is the section explaining exactly what was done, so that somebody else could do it again — which is what makes a result checkable at all. Strictly, methodology means the study of methods and method means the procedure, and using methodology for method is a common inflation that some editors still fight. Note methodological.
1nounmethodologyThe system of procedures a study follows.
“Reviewers criticised the study's methodology, because the sample was small and badly chosen.”
methodology is a system of procedures.
French méthodologie is method plus -ology, from Greek methodos, a pursuit of knowledge — meta plus hodos, a way. Exodus and period come from the same road.
French
méthodologie
English, today
methodology
From French méthodologie. by surface analysis, method + -ology.
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