Sentence The phrase "certain definition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that is specific or definite and can be used interchangeably with words like "particular" and "precise". For example, "I need to find a certain definition of the word 'termite' before I can start my research."
"At the same time, I believe rights were endowed to us by our creator, and our creator has a certain definition of marriage," she said.
This sort of childhood seems to have imprinted Philip with a certain definition of happiness — out there in the bush, lost in some experiment.
It was an incubator of talent, an arbiter of a certain definition of downtown hipness and a subscriber to the editorial philosophy of comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.
A mature thought style is a system where definitions mutually condition each other and where accepting a certain definition can prevent accepting some other ones.
We set up a Branch-and-Bound approach, which is optimized to generate a complete enumeration of all tautomers, with regard to a certain definition, from any structure.
Continuing to write studies with caveats buried deep in the paper that predictably result in misinterpretation by the media is either nefarious or reminds me of a certain definition of insanity.
Certain definitions in the surveys seem open to abuse.
However, without intervention, efficient tariffs may violate certain definitions of social justice or fairness.
Although they do tend to have high self-esteem and well-being by certain definitions, narcissists are also prone to impulsivity, risky decisions, and unstable romantic relationships.
The agreement works like this: Each publisher is responsible for its own research, but when it touches on one of 90 topics, a uniformly phrased question must be asked and certain definitions apply -- to leave nothing to the imagination.
Feferman then turned to the study of predicativity, in which certain definitions ubiquitous in mathematics, such as that for the least upper bound of a set of real numbers, are restricted to avoid apparent circularities.
