working definition

常见例句

In fact, we are hard pressed for a good working definition for life in the cosmic context.
实际上，我们正在做一项艰苦的工作——给宇宙生命下一个定义。
Partly because of this research, most intelligence experts now use g as the working definition of intelligence.
现今大多数智力研究专家喜欢用g作为智力的关键定义，可能与这些心理学泰斗的实验研究成果分不开。
After all, RAND did establish the discipline of studying terrorism in the 1970s, long before the United Nations even had a working definition for the word.
不管怎么说，兰德早在70年代就建立了对恐怖主义的研究课题，那时在联合国里甚至还没有这个词的有效定义。

That sounds pretty close to aiding and abetting the enemy, a good working definition of treason.
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This is our working definition where small indicates that is has features too small for the unaided human eye to see.
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It would be more useful, perhaps, to simply describe certain of their key features and establish a working definition from there.
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