multidisciplinary
adjective
mul·ti·dis·ci·plin·ary ˌməl-tē-ˈdi-sə-plə-ˌner-ē 
-ˌtī-,
especially British -ˌdi-sə-ˈpli-nə-rē
: combining or involving more than one discipline or field of study : interdisciplinary
Treatment requires a multidisciplinary approach involving physicians, nutritionists, psychologists, trainers, and gynecologists …
Michelle L. Cameron Donaldson
Michelle L. Cameron DonaldsonHowever, the task of interpreting such spectra … will take a multidisciplinary team of astrophysicists, Earth scientists, climate scientists, and biologists. Sarah Scoles
Sarah ScolesIndeed, nanotechnology may change the way we think about mechanical engineering altogether, making it a more multidisciplinary field, one as concerned with atomic-level effects as electrical engineering or chemistry is. Stephen L. Girshick and Arun Majumdar
Stephen L. Girshick and Arun Majumdar
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A discipline is a field of study. So a multidisciplinary (or interdisciplinary) course is a team-taught course in which students are asked to understand a single subject as it's seen by two or more traditional disciplines. Multidisciplinary teaching can open students' eyes to different views of a subject that they had never considered before. A multidisciplinary panel discussion, on the other hand, presents views from scholars in different fields but may leave any merging of the information to the audience.
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web When the multidisciplinary artist and archivist Guadalupe Rosales was 15, her parents threw her a quinceañera in the backyard of their East L.A. home. Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2022 The musician also unveiled a video for the layered track, which was directed by Eno and London-based multidisciplinary artist Orfeo Tagiuri and uses handwriting by Eno’s granddaughter, Anya. Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2022 Far from being the story of a lone genius, the triumph of penicillin is actually one of the great stories of international, multidisciplinary collaboration in the history of science. New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021 With a background as a multidisciplinary artist, Cohen approaches design through a visual lens that plays with composition, color, and form in an approachable way. Allison Duncan, House Beautiful, 23 Aug. 2022 La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, which is winding down, has always been about artistic collaboration and multidisciplinary performances. David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022 But new music is not all this multidisciplinary Swede has up his sleeve. Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2022 The Latine Fellowship, for Institute alumni, is a yearlong multidisciplinary program that starts this month that includes a $10,000 unrestricted, non-recoupable grant for each fellow as well as creative and practical support for their projects. Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2022 The larger history, multidisciplinary and much of it grassroots political, unfolds chronologically on the show’s second floor. New York Times, 21 July 2022 See More
Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2022 The musician also unveiled a video for the layered track, which was directed by Eno and London-based multidisciplinary artist Orfeo Tagiuri and uses handwriting by Eno’s granddaughter, Anya. Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2022 Far from being the story of a lone genius, the triumph of penicillin is actually one of the great stories of international, multidisciplinary collaboration in the history of science. New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021 With a background as a multidisciplinary artist, Cohen approaches design through a visual lens that plays with composition, color, and form in an approachable way. Allison Duncan, House Beautiful, 23 Aug. 2022 La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, which is winding down, has always been about artistic collaboration and multidisciplinary performances. David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022 But new music is not all this multidisciplinary Swede has up his sleeve. Laird Borrelli-persson, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2022 The Latine Fellowship, for Institute alumni, is a yearlong multidisciplinary program that starts this month that includes a $10,000 unrestricted, non-recoupable grant for each fellow as well as creative and practical support for their projects. Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2022 The larger history, multidisciplinary and much of it grassroots political, unfolds chronologically on the show’s second floor. New York Times, 21 July 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1944, in the meaning defined above