What is the meaning of disciplinary?

adjective

  • Relating to discipline in behavior.
    • usage: "disciplinary problems in the classroom"
  • Relating to a specific field of academic study.
    • usage: "economics in its modern disciplinary sense"
  • Designed to promote discipline.
    • usage: "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary"
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