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- working definitionsplural of working definition: A definition that is chosen for an occasion and may not fully conform with established or authoritative definitions.
- operational definitionsplural of operational definition: A showing of something — such as a variable, term, or object — in terms of the specific process or set of validation tests used to determine its presence and quantity.
- lexical definitionsplural of lexical definition: The meaning of a word in actual usage by speakers of a certain language.
- stipulative definitionsplural of stipulative definition: A definition in which a new or extant term is given a new meaning for the purposes of argument or discussion in a given context.
- dictionary definitionsplural of dictionary definition: A descriptive definition specifying one of the commonly used meanings of the defined term.
- high definitionsplural of high definition: Enhanced picture quality on a TV or any other display.
- circular definitionsplural of circular definition: A definition relying directly or indirectly on the term being defined.
- conceptual definitionsplural of conceptual definition: A definition in terms of concepts, instead of in terms of the results of measuring procedures or exemplification alone.
- recursive definitionsplural of recursive definition: A definition of a term within which the term itself appears, and that is well-founded, avoiding an infinite regress.
- definitions by pointingplural of definition by pointing: Ostensive definition.
- inductive definitionsplural of inductive definition: A recursive definition.
- cryptic definitionsplural of cryptic definition: A cryptic crossword clue with no wordplay element.
- extensional definitionsplural of extensional definition: A definition of a term that specifies its extension, that is, every object that falls under the definition.
- intensional definitionsplural of intensional definition: A definition that gives the meaning of a term by specifying all the properties of the things to which the term applies.
- enumerative definitionsplural of enumerative definition: A definition that exhaustively lists all the objects that fall under the defined term.
- ostensive definitionsplural of ostensive definition: A process of binding the meaning to the defined term by pointing out examples and counterexamples: definition by exemplification.
- precising definitionsplural of precising definition: An extension to a lexical definition for a specific purpose by including additional criteria that narrow down the set of things meeting the definition.
Compound words 6
- counterdefinitionsplural of counterdefinition: A definition (of a word or phrase) that opposes another definition.
- metadefinitionsplural of metadefinition: A definition of a definition.
- misdefinitionsplural of misdefinition: A definition that explains something incorrectly; a wrong definition.
- nondefinitionsplural of nondefinition: That which is not a definition, or fails to define properly.
- predefinitionsplural of predefinition: The act or process of defining something in advance.
- subdefinitionsplural of subdefinition: A lesser or secondary definition.