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

However, the task of interpreting such spectra … will take a multidisciplinary team of astrophysicists, Earth scientists, climate scientists, and biologists.

—Sarah Scoles

Indeed, 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

Did you know?

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.

Examples of multidisciplinary in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As the founder of Hannah Crowell Design Studio, a multidisciplinary firm in Nashville and Los Angeles encompassing interiors, art curation, branding, and product design, Crowell brings a creative eye to residential and commercial projects across the country and in Costa Rica. —Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2025

Harvard faculty delivered a multidisciplinary curriculum through case studies, discussion groups, and mentorship sessions. —Bryan Penprase, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025

Borella was a multidisciplinary artist who worked in visual arts and literature in addition to TV production. —Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2025

Stone enrolled in a multidisciplinary ALS clinic for ongoing monitoring, but the reality hadn’t fully sunk in. —Jordan Greene, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for multidisciplinary

• cardiopulmonary
• interdisciplinary
• postrevolutionary
• prerevolutionary
• accessary
• adversary
• ancillary
• arbitrary
• aviary
• axillary
• beriberi
• breviary