The phrase "defined meaning" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a precise meaning of a word or phrase that is agreed upon and understood by a group or culture. For example, "The term 'shenanigans' has a defined meaning in our family - it means mischief or mischievous behavior."
But the problem with defining creativity in this way, argues Keith Sawyer, Ph.D., professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation, is that "usefulness" and "adaptability" also need to be defined -- meaning researchers often have to use other measures to determine who or what is creative.
To help manage this issue, we chose to use the Web Ontology Language (Horrocks et al., 2003), the recommendation for representing knowledge with formally defined meaning.
He defined "meaning" as the manifestation of values, which are based on (i) creativity (e.g. work, deeds, dedication to causes), (ii) experience (e.g. art, nature, humor, love, relationships, roles), and (iii) attitude (one's attitude toward suffering and existential problems).
According to its commonly defined meaning, a "pause" is the interruption or suspension of a process.
Lecoq also rejected the idea of mime as a rigidly codified sign language, where every gesture had a defined meaning.
This phrase, he said, has no clearly defined meaning in the realm of government spending — unlike words like "obligate" and "expend".
Here is a vogue phrase in which punctuation marks define meaning.
The humane economy defines meaning: improving interpersonal connection, relating to other living beings.
To the learner of English, often brought up on a diet of grammar rules and comfortably defined meanings, such instances of language use, while commonplace, often seem to defy analysis.
It involves abstraction to define meaning, goals, and principles, as well as precision to define details and features.
This is a truly deep problem in any theory that hopes to define meaning by functional relationships between brain states.
