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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
interdisciplinary
adjective
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■ NOUN
approach
▪ This requires an interdisciplinary approach and the Institute has an holistic view of land, plant and animal management.
▪ The study also called for a more interdisciplinary approach to schooling.
▪ At a more general level too, an interdisciplinary approach should be welcomed.
▪ To understand what actually happens in these important decisions needs an interdisciplinary approach.
▪ Since the invisibility of women is not confined to particular disciplines, feminism has tended to take on an interdisciplinary approach.
research
▪ On the other hand, the growth of interdisciplinary research ventures, especially in the sciences, has been striking.
▪ The process has retarded the kind of interdisciplinary research required by complex environmental and population issues.
▪ Henley offers both organisations and individual managers the opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary research into issues of strategic importance.
▪ Section 11. 7 briefly describes interdisciplinary research needs.
▪ This permits opportunities for specialised or interdisciplinary research which are outstanding.
▪ This situation persists today, though strong movements towards interdisciplinary research help to avoid total fragmentation of scientific understanding.
study
▪ Fifthly, it is evident that criminal law is in some sense of the term a subject which calls for interdisciplinary study.
▪ In 1960 Calvin became director of the Laboratory of Chemical Biodynamics which fostered interdisciplinary study ranging from solar energy to brain chemistry.
▪ Even the fashion of interdisciplinary studies can not really deal with the dilemma.
work
▪ This account of interdisciplinary work is necessarily brief.
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▪ An interdisciplinary team of researchers are examining the disease.
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▪ Even the fashion of interdisciplinary studies can not really deal with the dilemma.
▪ In this environment, many students undertake work of an interdisciplinary nature.
▪ It attracted an international, interdisciplinary audience of over eighty people.
▪ Knut Holt Innovation projects are of an interdisciplinary nature and require co-operation between people with various talents.
▪ The international and interdisciplinary background of the department's postgraduate students provides the basis of a lively community.
▪ The research is interdisciplinary, using several techniques: analysis of statistical sources, literature reviews, field studies and case-history material.
▪ This project is useful for the analysis and an example of how to improve interdisciplinary relationships.
▪ This situation persists today, though strong movements towards interdisciplinary research help to avoid total fragmentation of scientific understanding.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
interdisciplinary

1937, from inter- + disciplinary.

Wiktionary
interdisciplinary

a. 1 Of or pertaining to multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study. 2 Of something linking multiple distinct academic disciplines or fields of study together.

WordNet
interdisciplinary

adj. drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study; "interdisciplinary studies"; "an interdisciplinary conference"

Usage examples of "interdisciplinary".

A good sales clerk is an interdisciplinary scholar, a student of history, psychology, sociology, linguistics, aesthetics, and marketing.

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There is bound to be considerable resistance among scientific materialists to such interdisciplinary and crosscultural research.

In Britain, the Society for Interdisciplinary Studies was founded under the impetus of Howard Tresman and puts out the journal Chronology and Catastrophism Review, besides hosting a regular program of workshops and conferences.