Disciplinary
WordNet
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"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.