disciplinary

adj
/dɪsɪˈplɪnəɹi/UK/ˈdɪs.ə.pləˌnɛɹi/US

Etymology

From Medieval Latin disciplinarius, from Latin disciplina (“instruction, teaching, field of study, habit”).

  1. derived from disciplina
  2. borrowed from disciplinarius

Definitions

  1. Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.

    • Debt can motivate or act as a disciplinary force for executives to achieve organizational efficiency.
  2. For the purpose of imposing punishment.

    • The school has announced that it will take disciplinary measures against the students who participated in the protest activities.
  3. Of or relating to an academic field of study.

    • We hope that psychologists will applaud good studies of scientific behavior and thought regardless of the disciplinary specialty of the author.
    • Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
  4. + 1 more definition
    1. A disciplinary action.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at disciplinary. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at disciplinary. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at disciplinary

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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