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interdisciplinary

interdisciplinary adjective: of or pertaining to multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study.

Adjective

interdisciplinary (comparative more interdisciplinary, superlative most interdisciplinary)

  1. Of or pertaining to multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study.
    • 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.
    • 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...2025 February 4, Queerious, “Don't Let Them Forget”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2025

interdisciplinary meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

interdisciplinary in Hindi

of or pertaining to multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study
अंतर्विषयक antarviṣyak

interdisciplinary in Tamil

துறையிடை, பலதுறை

interdisciplinary in Marathi

आंतरशाखीय, आंतरशिस्तीय, आंतरशाखाकीय

interdisciplinary in Urdu

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interdisciplinary in Bengali
আন্তঃবিষয়ক
interdisciplinary in Telugu
ఇంటర్డిసిప్లినరీ, ఇంటర్ డిసిప్లినరీ
interdisciplinary in Malayalam
ഇന്റർ ഡിസിപ്ലിനറി, ഇൻ്റർ ഡിസിപ്ലിനറി, ഇന്റർഡിസിപ്ലിനറി
interdisciplinary in Kannada
ಹಲಬಗೆಯ, ಹೊಂದಿಕೊಂಡ, ಒಳಗೊಂಡ
interdisciplinary in Punjabi
ਅੰਤਰ ਅਨੁਸ਼ਾਸਨੀ
interdisciplinary in Gujarati
આંતરશાખાકીય
interdisciplinary in Odia
ଆନ୍ତଃବିଷଯ଼କ, ଆନ୍ତଃବିଷଯ଼
interdisciplinary in Nepali
अन्तर्शिस्तीय
interdisciplinary in Malay
antara disiplin
interdisciplinary in Indonesian
interdisipliner
interdisciplinary in Thai
สหวิทยาการ

Examples of interdisciplinary in a sentence

  • For many years, ‘berestology’ has been an interdisciplinary research venture that engages archaeologists, philologists, linguists, and historians.
  • Létourneau's art and music activities sprawl across so many international and interdisciplinary borders that they defy blurbification.
  • As for my field, my B.A. from New Jersey State was interdisciplinary: adoxographic American cultural history combined with investigative folklore anthropology.

All 17 example sentences with interdisciplinary

Synonyms of interdisciplinary

Forms of interdisciplinary

comparativemore interdisciplinary
superlativemost interdisciplinary

Origin of interdisciplinary

From inter- + disciplinary.

Words formed from interdisciplinary

Questions about interdisciplinary

What does interdisciplinary mean?
Interdisciplinary means of or pertaining to multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study.
What is interdisciplinary in Hindi?
Interdisciplinary in Hindi is अंतर्विषयक (antarviṣyak). See Interdisciplinary meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is interdisciplinary?
Interdisciplinary is an adjective.

Words near interdisciplinary in the dictionary

  1. interdisciplinarian
  2. interdisciplinarians
  3. interdisciplinarily
  4. interdisciplinarities
  5. interdisciplinarity
  6. interdisciplinary
  7. interdiscipline
  8. interdisciplines
  9. interdiscursive
  10. interdiscursively
  11. interdiscursivities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: interdisciplinary (page history and authors); interdisciplinary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); interdisciplinary (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); interdisciplinary (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); interdisciplinary (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); interdisciplinary (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); interdisciplinary (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); interdisciplinary (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); interdisciplinary (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); interdisciplinary (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); interdisciplinary (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); interdisciplinary (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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