interdisciplinary

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Etymology

From inter- + disciplinary.

Adjective

interdisciplinary (comparative more interdisciplinary, superlative most interdisciplinary)

  1. Of or pertaining to multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study.
    Coordinate term: crossfunctional
    Near-synonyms: crossdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, pluridisciplinary, transdisciplinary
    This journal is interdisciplinary: it has articles on everything from biology to electrical engineering.
  2. Of or pertaining to a linkage between multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study.
    The interdisciplinary co-operation at this university is very impressive.
    • 2025 February 4, Queerious, “Don't Let Them Forget”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 28 February 2025:
      This was a very generous way of describing the swarm of cables, kit-bashed thaumatic cores, Noogenic foci and para-technological inverters, all surrounded by an astoundingly complex cognitohazardous sigil and multiple ontological anchors. This, simultaneously, simplified the interdisciplinary effort that had swelled in a miniscule amount of time, and undercut the sheer conceptual impact this could leave in all of their respective fields.

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