Noun
a particular branch of scientific knowledge
Source: WordNetOne is led to conclude that economics as a scientific discipline is still somewhat hanging in the air. Tjalling Koopmans
Submission to the experimental data is the golden rule that dominates any scientific discipline. Maurice Allais
[Though computer science is a fairly new discipline, it is predominantly based on the Cartesian world view. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra has pointed out] A scientific discipline emerges with the - usually rather slow! Edsger W. Dijkstra
the science of genetics Source: Internet