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int-uh-dis-uh-PLIN-uh-ree/ˌɪntədɪsəˈplɪnəri/

Interdisciplinary means involving two or more academic subjects: an interdisciplinary panel, interdisciplinary methods. Multidisciplinary is the close twin; a collage of logos is not a methods page.

Meaning

Involving two or more academic subjects.

Examples

• “An interdisciplinary film still needs the ethics minute signed first.”
• “An interdisciplinary panel still needs each method named; a logo collage is not a codebook.”
• “Multidisciplinary is the close twin. Cross-disciplinary is a cousin. A collage is design. A named method is a file. Write the methods; hang the logos on the cover if the funders still want them.”

Good to know

Across more than one subject. Close: multidisciplinary. A logo collage ≠ a codebook.

Near in meaning

multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary

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