Discipline

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. \n*A systematic method to obtain obedience, e.g. military discipline.

\nSee also: discipline question, school discipline \n\n----\nDiscipline may be an euphemism for punishment, in particular corporal punishment.

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\nA discipline is a branch of a profession or an academic field of knowledge. \n----\nA line discipline imposes a specific character or pattern of behaviour on a computer serial link.