1. A body of practices, procedures, and rules used by those who work in a discipline or engage in an inquiry; a set of working methods: the methodology of genetic studies; a poll marred by faulty methodology.
2. the study or theoretical analysis of such working methods.
3. the branch of logic that deals with the general principles of the formation of knowledge.
4. usage problem means, technique, or procedure; method.

1. the study of methods used in a field.
2. A collection of methods, practices, procedures and rules used by those who work in some field.
3. the implementation of such methods etc.

1. the science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method.

1. A branch of logic whose office it is to show how the abstract principles of the science are to be applied to the production of knowledge; the doctrine of definition and division; in a broader sense, the science of method in scientific procedure.
2. A treatise on method.

1. the branch of philosophy that analyzes the principles and procedures of inquiry in a particular discipline
2. the system of methods followed in a particular discipline