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interdisciplinarity

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interdisciplinarity (countable and uncountable, plural interdisciplinarities)

Any academic or scientific study that draws on the expertise of more than one discipline.

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The coming nanometer age can, therefore, also be called the age of interdisciplinarity. Heinrich Rohrer

At another level, interdisciplinarity is seen as a remedy to the harmful effects of excessive specialization. Source: Internet

More rarely, and at a more advanced level, interdisciplinarity may itself become the focus of study, in a critique of institutionalized disciplines' ways of segmenting knowledge. Source: Internet

On some views, however, interdisciplinarity is entirely indebted to those who specialize in one field of study—that is, without specialists, interdisciplinarians would have no information and no leading experts to consult. Source: Internet

The University administration has, however, taken steps in some cases to unify departments in separate faculties, in part to support York's efforts to brand itself as a university focused on interdisciplinarity. Source: Internet

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