The phrase "and defined as a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to clarify or specify the meaning of a term or concept in a definition or explanation.
Example: "The term 'sustainability' is often used in environmental discussions and defined as a practice that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
Alternatives: "and described as a" or "and characterized as a".
The isothermal stress strain curves of SMAs were simulated and defined as a material model in finite element analysis (FEA).
The lower soil (attributed to Bølling) is dated at 13.5 14 ka cal BP and defined as a weakly developed Petrocalcic Skeletic Colluvic Siltic Chernozem.
This variant, called prefibrotic myelofibrosis (pre-PMF), was formally introduced in the previous 2001 and 2008 World Health Organization (WHO) classifications of tumors3,4, and defined as a distinct clinico-pathologic entity in the recent 2016 revision5.
A PAI process and all integral intermediate processes for which 100percentt of the annual production is used in the production of the PAI may be linked together and defined as a single PAI process unit.
Only if NVLD is established and defined as a discrete clinical entity, with a distinct set of agreed-upon criteria, will those with NVLD be able to access appropriate interventions and accommodations.
In this research article three different passive techniques are considered and defined as a uniform zigzag surface, small parabola shape cavities and bumps at lower wall of the combustion chamber.
"Sustainable development" is used in this study as an integrating theme and defined as a positive relationship between ecological integrity and human welfare over time within ecologically-relevant areas.
And here's the crux of my argument: just as Islamists should not call for a state exclusively for Muslims, run by the Islamist ideology and defined as a "Muslim country", likewise, Jews should not label Israel as a Jewish state, run exclusively by and for Jews.
In Merriam-Webster's Ninth Collegiate, that useful noun nit-picking is dated as entering the language in 1956 and defined as "a minute and usually unjustified criticism"; Webster's New World defines nit-picking as an adjective and noun meaning "paying too much attention to petty details; niggling".
Some readers identified celebrity-specific phenomena, such as @SEDemmler's the Dave Matthews Effect ("Any time you indecipherably mumble and grunt your way to prolonged success") or @ChaseLori's the Colbert Report Defect (pronounced "coal-BAYR rapport de-FECK" and defined as a "speech impediment that causes one to make hard T's silent").
Viereck was scornful of this achievement, considering it of a piece with a tactic used by McCarthy which Viereck called "transtolerance" and defined as a feature of the new right wing whereby "manifestations of ethnic intolerance tend to decrease in proportion as ideological intolerance increases...
