[ˈmɛθəd], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a particular procedure for accomplishing or approaching something, especially a systematic or established one
(e.g: a method for software maintenance)


Phrases:
- there is method in someone's madness

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘prescribed medical treatment for a disease’): via Latin from Greek methodos ‘pursuit of knowledge’, from meta- (expressing development) + hodos ‘way’