Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Relating to or enforcing discipline: Used to describe actions, measures, or systems designed to correct behavior, enforce rules, or maintain order.
   • Relating to a specific branch of knowledge or academic study: Used to describe something that pertains to a particular field of learning or scholarship.

Examples of Usage

• Relating to discipline:
  • The company has a strict disciplinary policy for employees who violate the code of conduct.
  • The principal took disciplinary action against the students involved in the fight.
• Relating to an academic field:
  • Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing from several disciplinary perspectives like sociology and history.
  • The conference focused on new disciplinary boundaries in the sciences.

Advanced Usage

• "disciplinary hearing": A formal meeting to investigate and decide on a breach of rules.
  • The athlete faced a disciplinary hearing after failing a drug test.
• "disciplinary matrix": A term in the philosophy of science referring to the set of practices and beliefs that define a scientific discipline at a particular time.

Variants and Related Words

• Discipline (n/v): The practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior; a branch of knowledge.
  • Military discipline is very strict. (n)
  • You must discipline yourself to study every day. (v)
• Interdisciplinary (adj): Involving two or more academic disciplines.
  • The environmental studies program is highly interdisciplinary.
• Multidisciplinary (adj): Combining or involving several academic disciplines or professional specializations.
  • A multidisciplinary team of doctors worked on the complex case.

Synonyms

• Corrective: Designed to correct or rectify something.
• Punitive: Inflicting or intended as punishment.
• Scholarly: Involving or relating to serious academic study.

Related Phrases

• To take disciplinary action: To formally punish someone or enforce a rule.
  • The university will take disciplinary action against students caught cheating.
• A disciplinary measure: A specific step taken to enforce discipline.
  • Suspension is a serious disciplinary measure.

Adjective

1. designed to promote discipline
   • the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional
   • disciplinal measures
   • the mother was stern and disciplinary
2. relating to a specific field of academic study
   • economics in its modern disciplinary sense
3. relating to discipline in behavior
   • disciplinary problems in the classroom