Sentence examples for informal definition from inspiring English sources

Many markets are 20% or more below their highs, the informal definition of a bear market.

The linguistic abuse of literally has got out of control – even the OED now includes an informal definition of literally as "used for emphasis while not being literally true".

The first motor of the story is the informal definition of the space in which the movie is set: the part of the beach where men — only men — get together and hook up.

This informal definition is obviously sketchy and incomplete.

The interactive game approach helps to cope with incompleteness and informal definition of UML models, which make strictly formal verification techniques difficult.

Detection of code smells is challenging for developers and their informal definition leads to the implementation of multiple detection techniques and tools.

If I may paraphrase various informal definitions that are to be found online, research rapture is something like this: A state of enthusiasm or exaltation arising from the exhaustive study of a topic or period of history; the delightful but dangerous condition of becoming repeatedly sidetracked in following intriguing threads of information, or constantly searching for one more elusive fact.

In the current practice, informal definitions of use cases are used and the analysis process is manual.

In application to ordinary, informal definitions, the Vicious-Circle Principle does not provide, it must be said, a clear method of demarcating the meaningful from the meaningless.

The comparison of code smell detection tools is a difficult task because these tools are based on informal definitions of the smells.

For example, in the "language" L ω,ω1), formulas will have only finitely many free variables, while there will be a host of "useless" quantifiers able to bind infinitely many free variables.[2] These informal definitions need to be tightened up in a rigorous development, but their meaning should be clear to the reader.