multidisciplinary

adjective

mul·ti·dis·ci·plin·ary ˌməl-tē-ˈdi-sə-plə-ˌner-ē

-ˌtī-,

especially British -ˌdi-sə-ˈpli-nə-rē

: combining or involving more than one discipline or field of study : interdisciplinary

Treatment requires a multidisciplinary approach involving physicians, nutritionists, psychologists, trainers, and gynecologists …—

Michelle L. Cameron Donaldson

However, the task of interpreting such spectra … will take a multidisciplinary team of astrophysicists, Earth scientists, climate scientists, and biologists.—

Sarah Scoles

Indeed, nanotechnology may change the way we think about mechanical engineering altogether, making it a more multidisciplinary field, one as concerned with atomic-level effects as electrical engineering or chemistry is.—

Stephen L. Girshick and Arun Majumdar

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A discipline is a field of study. So a multidisciplinary (or interdisciplinary) course is a team-taught course in which students are asked to understand a single subject as it's seen by two or more traditional disciplines. Multidisciplinary teaching can open students' eyes to different views of a subject that they had never considered before. A multidisciplinary panel discussion, on the other hand, presents views from scholars in different fields but may leave any merging of the information to the audience.

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Eaddy hopes to grow the festival so attendance is over 20,000 people and continue to build a multidisciplinary platform to share Black culture to the world. —

Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Jan. 2025 The technology, innovation and partnerships directorate established initiatives to support regional projects and multidisciplinary partnerships bringing together researchers, entrepreneurs and community organizations. —

Arthur Daemmrich, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2025 David Lynch, the singular American filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist who conjured dreams and nightmares of unsettling beauty and psychic horror, has died. —

Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025 Victoria is a director and producer Victoria is a multidisciplinary artist whose skills range from interior design to directing and producing, per her website. —

Hoda Mallone, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for multidisciplinary

Word History

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1944, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of multidisciplinary was in 1944

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“Multidisciplinary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multidisciplinary. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.

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Last Updated: 23 Jan 2025 - Updated example sentences

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