"establishing a definition" is correct and usable in written English.
You might use it in a sentence like this: "Our goal was to establish a definition of the term 'success' that everyone in the room could agree on."
"The GREAT Group has done some things over the past few years, such as establishing a definition of postdocs, and then a couple of years ago, the postdoc compact," a formal statement of mutual obligations and responsibilities for postdocs and principal investigators.
The review of spend will help to address some of the concerns outlined above, by establishing a definition of prevention and early intervention that can be tracked and monitored over time.
We believe that establishing a definition of preventable harm is desirable and may help guide quality improvement efforts and safety initiatives; however, a proposed definition would need to be sufficiently nuanced to reflect the setting and purpose of the preventability designation.
Approximately a year ago, the American Heart Association established a definition for a heart attack that encompasses any enzyme elevation.
He once wrote that the greatest 19th-century novelists were all trying to establish a definition of human nature.
Because of difficulty in identifying postdocs, institutions have found it necessary to first establish a definition that encompasses all postdocs.
The first section reviews various theoretical approaches to establish a definition of rural development for policy analysis, considering the complexity and the many factors that explain the reality of the Mexican countryside and the population that lives there.
The concept of inertial axis of rotation was used to establish a definition of position and angle of position for both the malleus trough and stapes cup, graphically represented in Fig. 4. Fig. 4 Mesh-based inertial axis of rotation.
Asked if he had established a definition of progressivism that was too narrow, Sanders said that a threshold issue was campaign finance and that candidates like Clinton, who has raised vast sums from Wall Street, didn't pass muster.
We consider the limitations of this classification scheme, and discuss other ways in which the effort to establish a definition of "meaningful" might be approached.
