The phrase "applied a definition of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the act of using or implementing a specific definition in a particular context or analysis.
Example: "In her research, she applied a definition of 'sustainability' that emphasized environmental, social, and economic factors."
Alternatives: "utilized a definition of" or "employed a definition of".
His early research applied a definition of culture as "the shared understandings that people use to coordinate their activities" to dance musicians, marijuana users, and students.
My colleague Craig Ross and I recently published a paper in the Journal of Public Health Policy in which we applied a definition of targeting from tobacco case law (Lockyer v Reynolds) to the alcohol industry.
By contrast, the literature on reinforcement learning has generally not incorporated quantitative notions of information, and most of the literature on efficient coding has applied a definition of probability that cannot be used to quantify the information found within the nervous system (Text S1).
We applied a definition of disease-related healthcare use in an effort to reduce variability in the cost estimate, and this precluded the estimation of total healthcare costs.
We did not apply a definition of loss-to-follow-up for excluding patients from the analysis, thus all patients ever initiated on treatment were accounted for until the end of the observation period or documented date of death.
For the meta-analysis I have tried as far as possible to apply a definition of neuro-developmental impairment which includes all infants who have an abnormality which appears likely to affect day to day function, this includes a developmental quotient more than 2 standard deviations below the normal mean, a diagnosis of cerebral palsy, and blindness.
By applying a definition of ≥ 75 cases per 100,000 inhabitants during at least two weeks and ≥ 5 cases during at least one of these weeks to these health centre level data, we could describe several characteristics of meningitis epidemiology in general, and localised epidemics in particular.
As this broad definition of compliance might overestimate actual compliance, we also applied a stricter definition of compliance to investigate the effect of any overestimation.
Mathematically, proving that zero is even is a simple matter of applying a definition, but more explanation is needed in the context of education.
We have applied a narrow definition of melancholia (measured by the CORE system) instead of the broad definition of the DSM which, although being 'the most frequently used' reference point, have been pointed out to have poor agreement with the core features of melancholia derived from empirical studies [ 41].
