interdisciplinary
/ˌɪntɚdˈɪsəplənˌɛɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.39 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study.
adj
Of or pertaining to a linkage between multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: crossdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, pluridisciplinary, transdisciplinary"
- "This journal is interdisciplinary: it has articles on everything from biology to electrical engineering."
- "The interdisciplinary co-operation at this university is very impressive."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English disciplinary English interdisciplinary From inter- + disciplinary.
Inflected Forms
more interdisciplinary (comparative)
most interdisciplinary (superlative)