disciplinary

C1 Topic:Education & Learning
US /ˈdɪs.ə.pləˌnɛɹi/ UK /dɪsɪˈplɪnəɹi/
adj Freq #13951

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    relating to a specific field of academic study

    Economics in its modern disciplinary sense.

  2. 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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