The phrase "are defined to comprise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in formal or technical contexts, particularly when specifying the components or elements of a definition or classification.
Example: "The parameters of the study are defined to comprise three main variables: age, income, and education level."
Alternatives: "are specified to include" or "are described to consist of".
It is recalled that the MPB is defined to comprise a sharp, thin and well-defined plasma boundary located between the bow shock and the inner ionospheric boundary at comets, Mars and Venus (Bertucci et al., 2005).
The Good Radiopharmaceutcial Practice Code was defined to comprise the application of the GMP guidelines for Pharmaceuticals with the relevant guidelines for radiation protection during production, distribution and hospital handling of radiopharmaceuticals to ensure the safety and efficacy of the product administered to the patient.
Hence, the state vector is defined to comprise the position of all the vehicles s k = { s i, k } i = 1 M, where si,kdenotes the position of vehicle i, and M is the number of vehicles existing in the image at time k.
An a priori 'smoking related' cancer was defined to comprise a malignancy of the head and neck, esophagus, lung, bladder, or pancreas.
In this study, a pTyr signalling circuit is defined to comprise a tyrosine kinase, a substrate of the tyrosine kinase, and an SH2 or PTB domain that binds to the tyrosine-phosphorylated site.
One family (J) was defined to represent Myo15 (comprising the longest region: Myo15 III).
A firing configuration of a fully connected network comprising nodes is defined to be the concatenation of the phase of node at the time when just reached the threshold for the th time and consequently applied the phase advance.
High abundance genes are defined as those comprising > 0.05% of annotated muscle transcriptome.
For a given pre-miR, its flanking region was defined as comprising the region upstream (distance equal to the pre-miR) and downstream (distance equal to the pre-miR).
The top ranked pairs are defined as all consecutive pairs comprising at least one disease SNP in each pair.
In allied health, service delivery is described in terms of episodes of care, which is defined as ' comprising all those occasions of service provided to the one patient for the one condition in the one allied health service, using the one referral [ 16].' The core elements of performance evaluation were mapped against the framework for allied health service.
