# Direct method

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**Direct method** may refer to

- [Direct method (education)](/source/Direct_method_(education)) for learning a foreign language
- [Direct method (computational mathematics)](/source/Direct_method_(computational_mathematics)) as opposed to iterative method
- [Direct methods (crystallography)](/source/Direct_methods_(crystallography)) for estimating the phases of the Fourier transform of the scattering density from the corresponding magnitudes
- [Direct method in calculus of variations](/source/Direct_method_in_calculus_of_variations) for constructing a proof of the existence of a minimizer for a given functional
- [Direct method (accounting)](/source/Direct_method_(accounting)) as opposed to indirect method for calculating cash flows

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