The phrase "a practical definition" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a definition that is useful and applicable in real-world situations.
Example: "In order to understand the concept better, let’s start with a practical definition of sustainability."
Alternatives: "a useful definition" or "an applicable definition".
This is an essential seminar for managers and leaders looking for a practical definition of big society and how it will work within local government.
A practical definition of the absolute Galvani potential scale for a liquid liquid interface can be based on a set of single-ion transfer Gibbs energies.
That most fiction arguably fails at this is just a practical definition of "most," and a parallel of the fact that most journalism, also, is good enough only for the "jour" — the day.
This also suggests a practical definition of scientific collaboration as an activity in which resources, of one kind or another, are exchanged, or shared, between collaborating research groups.
A practical definition of trajectory was indicated as follows: a sequence of conditions that are crossed before getting to T2D, and during which some comorbidities are presented (hyperlipidemia, hypertension, impaired fasting glucose).
Here we propose a practical definition of molecular similarity in the context of drug discovery: molecules A and B are similar if a medicinal chemist would be likely to synthesise and test them around the same time as part of the same medicinal chemistry program.
But here is a more practical definition: Being a father means being more likely to have a job.
A more practical definition is a fracture that has failed to heal within the expected time, given the individual fracture characteristics.
We believe this is a reasonable, practical definition for a clinical condition whose definition has varied even across clinical trials of surfactant therapy [ 4- 6].
A more practical definition includes an impairment of vision with normal function of the ocular structures and anterior visual pathways [ 4- 6].
Tarokh, who worked at AT&T Labs until a year ago and Ran Yan Ran Yan *, Ran Yan vice-president of the wireless research laboratory at Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratorieses, both said that a more practical definition of 3G might be a network that can give each user a minimum of 40 kbs of data.
