subdiscipline

noun

sub·dis·ci·pline ˌsəb-ˈdi-sə-plən

variants or less commonly sub-discipline

plural subdisciplines also sub-disciplines

: a discipline (such as an academic discipline) that is part of a broader discipline

Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline of chemistry.

The management of programmers is a discipline unto itself. There are subdisciplines that deal with how coders communicate.—

Paul Ford

Examples of subdiscipline in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Spheres are especially important in a subdiscipline of geometry known as contact geometry. —

Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023 Sometime in the 1970s archeologists broadened their focus, giving rise to a subdiscipline called household archeology. —

Mary Roach, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 Since then a subdiscipline of neuroscience has emerged—one dedicated to plotting out the brains of increasingly complex organisms. —

Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2023 Researchers in this subdiscipline try to understand how aging will affect social relationships and roles. —

Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 18 June 2023 As the subdiscipline has crept toward the center of academic discourse, it has also been recast as a science. —

Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020 By 1996, when Moyes first arrived in Belize as a Florida Atlantic University graduate student to participate in the Western Belize Regional Cave Project, cave studies had been recognized as a legitimate subdiscipline of Maya archaeology. —

Will Hunt, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2014 See More

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