Common methods include uranium-lead dating, potassium-argon dating and argon-argon dating, and uranium-thorium dating.

Common methods of shoring are the use of sheet piles or soldier beams and lagging.

Common methods include the AAR wheel arrangement, UIC classification, and Whyte notation systems.

Common experimental methods of structure determination include X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy, both of which can produce information at atomic resolution.

Common methods are infra-red ( IR ) spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance ( NMR ) spectroscopy.

Common risk identification methods are:

Common methods of conducting a probability sample of the household population in the United States are Area Probability Sampling, Random Digit Dial telephone sampling, and more recently Address-Based Sampling.

Common methods of regression testing include rerunning previously run tests and checking whether program behavior has changed and whether previously fixed faults have re-emerged.

Common treatment methods include an eclectic mix of psychotherapy techniques, including cognitive behavioral ( CBT ), insight-oriented therapies, dialectical behavioral therapy ( DBT ), hypnotherapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing ( EMDR ).

Common management methods include: a command-line interface ( CLI ) accessed via serial console, telnet or Secure Shell, an embedded Simple Network Management Protocol ( SNMP ) agent allowing management from a remote console or management station, or a web interface for management from a web browser.

Common methods of determining what Preventive ( or other ) failure management policies should be applied are ; OEM recommendations, requirements of codes and legislation within a jurisdiction, what an " expert " thinks ought to be done, or the maintenance that's already done to similar equipment, and most important measured values and performance indications.

Common inspection methods for aluminum castings are radiography, ultrasonic testing, and liquid penetrant testing.

Common methods include:

Common methods used for fortune telling in Europe and the Americas include astromancy, horary astrology, pendulum reading, spirit board reading, tasseography ( reading tea leaves in a cup ), cartomancy ( fortune telling with cards ), tarot reading, crystallomancy ( reading of a crystal sphere ), and chiromancy ( palmistry, reading of the palms ).

Common methods include:

Common methods for such reduction include:

Common methods for the qualitative analysis of nonlinear ordinary differential equations include:

Common methods used to stop shaving-induced bleeding include: ( 1 ) pressing any simple alcohol onto the cut until the bleeding stops ( e. g. with a cotton swab ); ( 2 ) placing a small piece of tissue or toilet paper onto the cut ; ( 3 ) applying styptic pencils and styptic liquids ; 4 ) placing a small amount of petroleum jelly on the cut after most of the bleeding has ended ( which can stop the bleeding without forming a scab ), or 5 ) applying a small amount of aluminum chlorohydrate ( commonly found in roll-on deodorants such as Ban ).

Common usability evaluation methods include:

Common methods used are music, prayer, and listening circles.

In certain systems for object-oriented programming such as the Common Lisp Object System and Dylan, a generic function is an entity made up of all methods having the same name.

Common Lisp can also retrieve individual methods from the generic function.

Common methods and themes in crime thrillers are mainly ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings.

Common methods for verifying that operating system patches have not been altered include the use of cryptographic hash, such as an MD5 based checksum, or the use of read-only media.

Common examples of acids include acetic acid ( in vinegar ), sulfuric acid ( used in car batteries ), and tartaric acid ( used in baking ).

Since then the " Common Strategy " policy in the USA and the rest of the world has no longer been used.

Common conditions with which antipsychotics might be used include schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and delusional disorder.

Common categories include the type of structural elements used, by what they carry, whether they are fixed or movable, and by the materials used.

The Book of Common Prayer is the short title of a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion, as well as by the Continuing Anglican, " Anglican realignment " and other Anglican churches.

A Book of Common Prayer with local variations is used in churches inside and outside the Anglican Communion in over 50 different countries and in over 150 different languages.

The English-Chinese Diglot Book of Common Prayers, used by the Filipino-Chinese community of St. Stephen's Parish, Manila | St Stephen's Pro-Cathedral

Common families include symmetric systems ( e. g. AES ) and asymmetric systems ( e. g. RSA ); they may alternatively be grouped according to the central algorithm used ( e. g. elliptic curve cryptography ).

The legal instruments used by the Council for the Common Foreign and Security Policy are different from the legislative acts.

Though Common Lisp is not as popular as some non-Lisp languages, many of its features have made their way into other, more widely used programming languages and systems ( see Greenspun's Tenth Rule ).

Most of the Lisp systems whose designs contributed to Common Lisp — such as ZetaLisp and Franz Lisp — used dynamically scoped variables in their interpreters and lexically scoped variables in their compilers.

With Common Lisp incremental compilation is widely used.

CCL was previously known as OpenMCL, but that name is no longer used, to avoid confusion with the open source version of Macintosh Common Lisp.

; Codemist Common Lisp: used for the commercial version of the computer algebra system Axiom

; Kyoto Common Lisp: the first Common Lisp compiler that used C as a target language.

; Procyon Common Lisp: an implementation for Windows and Mac OS, used by Franz for their Windows port of Allegro CL

; SubL: a variant of Common Lisp used for the implementation of the Cyc knowledge-based system

Common Lisp is used to develop research applications ( often in Artificial Intelligence ), for rapid development of prototypes or for deployed applications.

Common Lisp is used in many commercial applications, including the Yahoo!

* PWGL is a sophisticated visual programming environment based on Common Lisp, used in Computer assisted composition and sound synthesis.

* OpenMusic is an object-oriented visual programming environment based on Common Lisp, used in Computer assisted composition.

Dates in the Gregorian calendar in the Western world have always used the era designated in English as Anno Domini or Common Era.