multidisciplinary

English

Etymology

From multi- +‎ disciplinary.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /mʌltiˈdɪsəplɪnɛri/

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Adjective

multidisciplinary (comparative more multidisciplinary, superlative most multidisciplinary)

1. Relating to multiple areas of study or work.

   Coordinate term: crossfunctional

   Near-synonyms: crossdisciplinary, interdisciplinary, pluridisciplinary, transdisciplinary

   • 2007 May 21, Leslie Feinberg, “Cuba mobilized before first diagnosis”, in Workers World‎^[1]:

     A multi-disciplinary team of doctors and researchers was assigned to work full time on AIDS.

   • 2014 January, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review‎^[2], volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 30:

     This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty^[sic] years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.

Derived terms

• multidisciplinary team

Related terms

• multidisciplinarian
• multidisciplinarianism
• multidisciplinarity

Translations

relating to multiple areas of study

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: բազմագիտակարգային (bazmagitakargayin)
• Catalan: pluridisciplinari (ca), multidisciplinari (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多學科的 / 多学科的 (duōxuékē de), 多科目的 (duōkēmù de)

• Czech: víceoborový (cs) m, multidisciplinární (cs)
• Dutch: multidisciplinair (nl)
• Finnish: monitieteinen
• Greek: πολυεπιστημονικός (el) m (polyepistimonikós), πολυθεματικός m (polythematikós)
• Northern Sami: máŋggadieđalaš
• Norwegian: tverrvitenskapelig
• Romanian: multidisciplinar (ro)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: multidisciplinario
• Swedish: mångvetenskaplig (sv), flervetenskaplig, multidisciplinär