adj
Freq #13951
Meanings
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1
adj
relating to a specific field of academic study
Economics in its modern disciplinary sense.
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2
adj
relating to discipline in behavior
Disciplinary problems in the classroom.
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Derived forms
antidisciplinarybidisciplinarycross-disciplinarycrossdisciplinarydisciplinariandisciplinarilydisciplinarityinterdisciplinaryintradisciplinarymonodisciplinarymultidisciplinarynondisciplinary
Related forms
discipline
Etymology
From Medieval Latin disciplinarius, from Latin disciplina (“instruction, teaching, field of study, habit”).
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