The phrase "a plausible definition" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a definition that seems reasonable or believable within a certain context.
Example: "In the context of this debate, a plausible definition of democracy would be a system of government in which the citizens exercise power directly or through elected representatives."
Alternatives: "a reasonable definition" or "a credible definition".
A plausible definition, therefore, needs to be more precise and distinguish robots from mere computers and other devices.
Of course, we all enjoy spending time in the company of charismatic people like Dr. Fox, and we're more sympathetic to what they have to say (indeed, that enhanced attention people pay comes close to a plausible definition of charisma).
Our increased understanding of the physical-chemical basis of living systems has increased enormously over the past century and it is possible to give a plausible definition of life in these terms.
She even read out a perfect plausible definition of ecocide to the gathering.
The Labour leader badly needs to give his party, and in particular himself, a more plausible definition.
For each model, we first introduce the hydrolysis mechanism and then explore plausible definitions of catastrophe.
The American automobile industry held to a plausible but incomplete definition of the problem of automotive safety.
For those who don't know, this is a board game which adopts broadly similar principles to the much-loved quiz show Call My Bluff, in which Frank Muir, Alan Coren and assorted guest wits would present the opposing team with an obscure word - cunctator, for example, or refocillate, or fartlek - and three plausible variant definitions, of which only one is true.
But a controversial new version of the concept emerged this year: to go beyond the traditional definition of a plausible candidate for trusteeship -- a territory struggling for independence -- and expand it to include sovereign states.
A possible way forward to overcome the current gaps in knowledge that could act as obstacles to the definition of a plausible regulatory approach to chemical mixture risk assessment would be to use a tiered approach as follows: (a) Use dose addition to calculate a hazard index taking into account interactions (eq. 16) as default option for hazard quantification and risk assessment.
We have focused on two aspects of the problem: the definition of a plausible chemical frame into which the first spontaneous syntheses could have taken place; the evolutionarily relevant selective properties and constrains that the first informational polymers had to deal with.
