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INTERDISCIPLINARY
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study
Example:
an interdisciplinary conference
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
discipline (a branch of knowledge)
Context examples:
DCEG supports two programs: One provides pre- and postdoctoral training in cancer epidemiology and biostatistics, and the other provides postdoctoral interdisciplinary training in cancer genetics and epidemiology.
(Fellowship Programs, DCEG, NCI Thesaurus)
An interdisciplinary team of researchers using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica has measured how certain high-energy neutrinos are absorbed by the Earth, as opposed to passing through matter as most neutrinos do.
(Antarctic detector offers first look at how Earth stops high-energy neutrinos in their tracks, National Science Foundation)
Physics as applied to biological problems; an interdisciplinary science that applies theories and methods of the physical sciences to questions of biology.
(Biophysics, NCI Thesaurus)
The Cancer Genome Anatomy Project (CGAP) is an interdisciplinary program to establish the information and technological tools needed to decipher the molecular anatomy of a cancer cell.
(Cancer Genome Anatomy Project, NCI Thesaurus)
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has concluded that bacteria in a lake 800 meters (2,600 feet) beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may digest methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, preventing its release into the atmosphere.
(Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice sheet may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, National Science Foundation)
Bioinformatics is a rapidly developing branch of biology and is highly interdisciplinary, using techniques and concepts from informatics, statistics, mathematics, chemistry, biochemistry, physics, and linguistics.
(Bioinformatics, NCI Thesaurus)
Interdisciplinary field of study in which theoretical, computational, or mathematical research is applied to or motivated by biology.
(Mathematical Biology, NCI Thesaurus)
Particular emphasis is placed on encouraging interdisciplinary, population-based research focusing on the etiologic mechanisms underlying the interaction of genetic and epidemiologic risk factors for cancer susceptibility.
(Interdisciplinary Studies in the Genetic Epidemiology of Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)
Working within an interdisciplinary team and guided by theory and research, medical-surgical nursing practice considers all influences on health status and the related social and behavioral problems arising because of the patient's physiological condition.
(Medical-Surgical Nursing, NCI Thesaurus)
Our article is the first time such a large body of interdisciplinary evidence has been investigated in this context, said lead author Lee Mordechai of the synthesis center and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
(Justinianic plague not a landmark pandemic?, National Science Foundation)
