The phrase "a distinct definition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to emphasize that a definition is clear, specific, and easily distinguishable from others.
Example: "In order to understand the concept fully, we need to establish a distinct definition of the term."
Alternatives: "a clear definition" or "a specific definition".
It is difficult to formulate a distinct definition for each of these terms, because their use largely overlaps in the literature despite individual preferences.
The Brewers Association created a distinct definition for craft brewers, said Bob Pease, its chief operating officer, to differentiate small companies from big ones that were also marketing certain beers as craft.
As such, coming up with a distinct definition is ethically important, and not just a case of splitting hairs.
Finally, we provide a distinct definition of data marketplaces, leading to a classification framework that can provide structure for the emerging field of data marketplace research.
The government and other organizations serve the same roles in actual implementation, which requires a distinct definition of the authority and responsibility of these actor roles to maintain the quality and efficiency of related transactions.
Still, that legislation failed to impose a distinct definition for street harassment, which commonly occurs in France.
Although novel findings will lead to an increase of parts of the puzzle, these parts have to be combined leading to a more distinct definition of few clearly defined phenotypes.
Instead, the improvements might be related to exercise performance over a sufficient period (12 months) even though the subject did not fit into the distinct definition of a completer.
But the report offers a distinct, simpler definition that focuses on "the central element of this disorder," said committee chair Ellen Wright Clayton at "public release event" held at IOM this morning.
Not yet, anyway, hence the distinct definition.
That's why it should be a national park city: a new kind of national park with the same spirit and aims as the others but with its own distinct definition, classification and criteria for qualification.
