Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or involving two or more academic disciplines that are usually considered distinct.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study.
- adj. Of something linking multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study together.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study
Examples
“Europe's strengths include exceptionally high quality of research; ability to work in interdisciplinary fashion (which makes research increasingly effective); and a very successful international corporate sector.”
The Wall Street Journal: EU Must Act Fast and Share Knowledge With China
“The School has also emerged as a leader in interdisciplinary work focusing on law and public policy.”
Discourse.net: Admit It, After Reading This You Want to be Our Dean
“Given how much contemporary legal scholarship trenches on other academic disciplines, the more legal scholars engage in interdisciplinary conversations, the better interdisciplinary scholarship is likely to be, both in and outside of the legal academy.”
“Enrollment patterns reveal a high level of interest in interdisciplinary programs and in double majors that for some can provide a way to combine traditional academic studies with work in a professional subject.”
“In Class Three, Princeton qualified in fine arts and Tell City qualified in English, interdisciplinary and science.”
“It's not "interdisciplinary" - which I bought into once.”
“spend a lot of money honestly" on such a project, because interest in interdisciplinary work could not be coerced.”
“There are three major research thrusts, called interdisciplinary research groups, within the BIONIC center.”
“As Wiggins points out, everyone likes the idea of interdisciplinary research, but it requires effort to make it work.”
“Frankly, the people who bring this up are often the ones who pull terms like "interdisciplinary" and "student-centered" (or whichever term they can pull from the handy-dandy Education Jargon Generator and put into their Comprehensive Education Plan for their schools and districts) are also the people who cause the dissension about the policies, well-intentioned as they may be.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘interdisciplinary’.
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Seven-syllable English Words
A list of English words containing seven syllables, beginning, somewhat ironically, with inapplicability, since a fair number of these words one would never use.
I'm tagging all words ...inapplicability, unsatisfactorily, heterogeneity, disintermediation, antiglobalization, telecommunication, interdisciplinary, meteorological, socioeconomic, intelligibility, autobiographical, industrialization and 423 more...
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EN - longest (>15 char) words
compartmentalisation, compartmentalization, counterrevolution..., counterrevolutionary, electroencephalogram, electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., electroencephalog..., institutionalisation, institutionalization and 634 more...
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SCIE - publications
The vocabulary of scientific paper submission
enclose, resource, meaningful, margin, embedded, publisher, mentor, clip, spelling, appendix, gloss, refer and 188 more...
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inter-
between or among; mutually
intercollegiate, interdependent, interactive, intervention, interdisciplinary, interesting, interpolate, interact, interchange, internal, intermolecular, international and 18 more...
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UO Digi-Scholars List
A list of words for creating a new name for the U of O Digital Scholars Group.
oregon, northwest, cascadia, pacific, collaboratory, consortium, community, interdisciplinary, research, scholars, scholarly, media and 12 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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seven syllables
transdifferentiation, parthenogenetically, monocotyledonous, sesquicentennial, quasiperiodically, invariability, indestructibility, catazonasulculate, pseudo-etymology, paraetymology, triskaidekaphobia, epidemiology and 197 more...
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zachg's Words
verisimilitude, phenomenology, polyvalent, aleatoric, ontology, epistemology, solipsism, monad, hermeneutic, heuristic, performative, constative and 142 more...
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
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designing learning
all things learning design
outcomes, engagement, conversation, social, community, networks, knowledge, technology, instruction, practice, review, motivation and 22 more...
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