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.

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)