interdisciplinary
Americanadjective
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combining or involving two or more academic disciplines or fields of study.
The economics and history departments are offering an interdisciplinary seminar on Asia.
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combining or involving two or more professions, technologies, departments, or the like, as in business or industry.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of interdisciplinary
First recorded in 1935–40; inter- ( def. ) + disciplinary ( def. )
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To solve this puzzle, an interdisciplinary team of chemists, biophysicists, and engineers used a range of advanced computational and laboratory techniques.
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"This interdisciplinary research at the intersection of advanced manufacturing, intelligent materials and mechanics opens new opportunities with broad implications for stimulus-responsive systems, biomimetic engineering, advanced encryption technologies, biomedical devices and more," Sun said.
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"That's why we take an interdisciplinary approach, blending developmental neuroscience and psychology with machine learning and robotics amongst other fields, to find new ways to think about learning and inform the future of AI."
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Health care professionals can find additional resources on interdisciplinary care and learn how to join the CKM Health Initiative at heart.org/CKMtools.
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He gave the example of Stanford’s d.school, an interdisciplinary program focused on the intersection of design and engineering.
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