How to spell interdisciplinary

Interdisciplinary is spelled I-N-T-E-R-D-I-S-C-I-P-L-I-N-A-R-Y.

hear itin·ter·dis·ci·pli·nar·y/,ɪntər'dɪsəplə,nɛri/adjectiveAcademic

What it means: Involving multiple fields of study.

In a sentence: The school has an interdisciplinary project where we learn about science and art together.

Same family: disciplines, interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, transdisciplinary. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Interdisciplinary comes from the Latin prefix "inter-" meaning "between" and "disciplina," meaning teaching or branch of knowledge. It became popular in the 20th century as universities started encouraging work that crossed traditional subject boundaries.

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