Discipline: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Discipline is any training intended to produce a specific character or pattern of behaviour, especially training that produces moral or mental development in a particular direction.

Forms of discipline:

• Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order.
• A systematic method to obtain obedience, e.g. military discipline.

See also: discipline question, school discipline

Discipline may be an euphemism for punishment, in particular corporal punishment.

A discipline is a branch of a profession or an academic field of knowledge.

A line discipline imposes a specific character or pattern of behaviour on a computer serial link.