The phrase "academic definition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a formal explanation or description of a term or concept within an academic context.
Example: "The academic definition of 'sustainability' encompasses environmental, social, and economic dimensions."
Alternatives: "scholarly definition" or "educational definition".
Pure folk by an academic definition is music of a localized culture transmitted by tradition.
More important than what the statistics mean for an academic definition, they suggest that the worst of the economic downturn may not yet be over.
His narrow, academic definition of learning ignores how important the racial makeup of the student body is to broader social learning and growth, especially in confronting racism.
Rather, economists are using the word depression — a subjective term with no academic definition — to describe a condition of broad and extreme economic distress that remains stubbornly in place for much longer than a typical downturn.
Here's one possible answer: thank Howard Gardner, the publication of whose book "Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences," in 1983, made clear what many people already intuited: that the narrowly academic definition of intelligence is not an accurate depiction of the manifold functioning of the mind.
He concludes his book by forgoing any academic definition, substituting instead a heartbreaking account of the suffering of a victim of the July 7 , 2005 attacks on the London underground — though the description could equally apply to anyone facing an unexpected death.
"Academic definitions aside, we'll call that a recession," wrote Steven Wieting, a Citigroup economist.
Why, they ask, should this war crimes court be turned into a venue for an unresolved debate over academic definitions?
One of the more common academic definitions of war comes from the Correlates of War project, which collects scientific data on wars.
While both artists have PhDs, Sprinkle in human sexuality and Stephens in performance art, they don't want the experts on their panel to be confined to the traditional academic definitions of an educator.
While these scenarios certainly fit definitions of medical error, [ 2, 10, 48], these "academic" definitions may seem disconnected from practicing physicians who have emotional and personal responses to words such as error[ 22, 42, 52].
