interdisciplinary

English

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^[1], 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.

Derived terms

• interdisciplinarily
• interdisciplinarity
• noninterdisciplinary

Translations

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

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: միջգիտակարգային (miǰgitakargayin)
• Belarusian: міждысцыпліна́рны (miždyscyplinárny)
• Catalan: interdisciplinari (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 跨學科的 / 跨学科的 (kuàxuékē de), 科際的 / 科际的 (kējì de)

• Czech: interdisciplinární (cs), mezioborový m
• Dutch: interdisciplinair (nl)
• Finnish: tieteidenvälinen, monitieteinen, poikkitieteellinen
• French: interdisciplinaire (fr)
• Georgian: დისციპლინათაშორისი (disciṗlinatašorisi)
• German: interdisziplinär (de), disziplinübergreifend
• Greek: διεπιστημονικός (el) m (diepistimonikós)
• Hungarian: interdiszciplináris (hu)
• Icelandic: þverfaglegur m, þverfræðilegur m
• Indonesian: interdisipliner (id)
• Malay: antara disiplin
• Polish: interdyscyplinarny (pl), wielodziedzinowy, wielowymiarowy, wielostronny (pl), różnokierunkowy, międzydyscyplinarny
• Portuguese: interdisciplinar (pt)
• Romanian: interdisciplinar (ro)
• Russian: междисциплина́рный (ru) (meždisciplinárnyj)
• Spanish: interdisciplinario, interdisciplinar
• Swedish: tvärvetenskaplig (sv)
• Thai: สหวิทยาการ
• Turkish: disiplinlerarası
• Ukrainian: міждисципліна́рний (miždyscyplinárnyj)