The phrase "actually defined to be" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when clarifying or specifying the definition of a term or concept in a precise manner.
Example: "In this context, the term 'velocity' is actually defined to be the rate of change of displacement with respect to time."
Alternatives: "specifically defined as" or "formally defined to be".
We fully understand, however, that how 'high risk' is actually defined is influenced by all the personal perceptions and expectations already mentioned, as well as the more pragmatic possibilities of influencing change and costs.
That would be easier for me, but do you want ME to actually define what is junk for you?
A: Look, it's tough to actually define That's My Boy as "a good movie," but for whatever reason, Adam Sandler throws every punch he has at this R-rated offering.
Well, to be clear, the high court won't actually define what is and isn't obscene, but it has given birth to a perplexing formula called the "Miller Test" to determine what can and cannot be banned.
But perhaps the biggest problem in measuring intelligence is actually defining what intelligence is.
Sure it doesn't do video, but it does have the same 51 point auto-focus that the D300s does, it uses the same lenses, and the processing speed hasn't been actually defined by Nikon as being that different.
The alienation of the people charged with documenting the national mood from the people who actually define it is one of the ruptures that has led to this moment: certainly, wherever I go, the press and television are the focus of as much resentment as politics.
How is extremism actually going to be defined?
Just over 60% of the studies in this review actually defined a comparison group, be it the general population or a more restricted internal or external population.
He feels no need to actually define this establishment; it's simply a blob of elitist others who are trying to tell real Americans "what they're allowed to think, what they're allowed to say".
