The phrase "as a definition for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to clarify or specify what a term or concept means in a particular context.
Example: "The term 'sustainability' is often used as a definition for practices that meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
Alternatives: "as an explanation for" or "as a description of".
More cricketing references, I'm afraid, with 'bye' invitingly possible as a definition for SAYONARA.
A Sept. 16, 2001, statement about one contaminant originally stated that samples "showed levels of asbestos ranging from 2.1percentto3.3percentcent" and that the agency "views a 1percentt level as a definition for asbestos-containing material".
In fact, knowing how I build up a theme should make it easier to solve, since you'll know that if I once use, say "second in command" as a definition for DEPUTY, it's very likely that the next time you see the same phrase it'll be as part of the wordplay, perhaps indicating the letter O... or perhaps not.
Von Neumann really was the model for the multiphasic talent pool; his photo should be in your Funk and Wagnall's as a definition for "polymath". Winner of the Bôcher Prize in math and the first Enrico Fermi Award in Physics and Energy (a legacy of Los Alamos), he worked in the infant field of computing as well (his 1940s von Neumann computer architecture is foundational).
Socrates presses upon a reluctant Protagoras his idea that courage is the knowledge of that which is and is not to be feared (360d), a doctrine that, in effect, he refutes as a definition for courage in the Laches.
The relationship L = A π, which has been stated as a result for two variables, allows us to consider it as a definition for the logarithmic mean involving three or more arguments.
The eHALOPH database does not use as strict a definition for halophytism as Flowers and Colmer (2008), who consider a plant a halophyte when it is able to complete its life cycle at 200 mM NaCl or more.
As a result, we derived a definition for initiation of automated eGFR reporting that provided approximate dates of implementation.
We don't have a definition for cure as we do for certain cancers, where after five years or so you can be relatively certain the person is not going to go and relapse".
We take these characteristics as a definition of informal patient payments for our analysis.
Six months as a definition of LTF is increasingly used for analyses of African HIV treatment cohorts.
