The phrase "a term was defined" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when explaining or clarifying the meaning of a specific term in a discussion or text.
Example: "In the context of our research, a term was defined to ensure that all participants had a clear understanding of the concepts being discussed."
Alternatives: "a term was explained" or "a term was clarified."
If a term is defined in subpart A and in this section, it shall have the meaning given in this section for purposes of this subpart.
The fact that a term is defined in ways that are problematic and subject to deep differences does not entail that it has no use.
For our purposes, a term is defined as any string of at least 3 alphanumeric characters (numeric strings were discarded).
First, there is an absence of an agreed definition of reporting and study quality, and how a term is defined and operationalised has implications for how and what is measured in assessment of a study.
Resnik defines the semantic similarity between a pair of GO terms c1 and c2 as the information content (IC) of their most informative common ancestor (MICA) according to the GO graph: Sim c 1, c 2 = IC c MICA The IC of a term is defined as the negative log of the probability that this term appears in a collection of gene annotations.
No exposure term was defined.
So, a singular term is defined via a singular term; a general term via a general term; a sentence via a sentence; and so on.
Categories of a GO term were defined as a set of the top parents that are accessible from the GO term through the GO graph structure.
The information content of a GO term is defined as the negative log of the probability to find a subset of the proteins annotated to that GO term.
Assuming counting error of a Poisson noise type, misregistration, an imaging term is defined graphically as the standard deviation vertical misalignment on a square root of count rate TAC plot, which latter is, indeed, an image.
