"prescriptive definition" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to a definition which prescribes how something should be done, or to the act of issuing such a definition. For example, "The teacher provided a prescriptive definition of the term 'integrity' to the class."
OPCS codes at the 3-character level were used for pragmatic reasons as well as to avoid being too prescriptive in our definitions.
In Table 3, we examined the correlations among themes, an indicator of how themes might have been packaged together in discussion to offer a diagnostic (i.e. problem definition) and prescriptive (i.e. problem solution) account of the Lacks case or tissue research more generally.
It is important to highlight that seismic microzonation is mainly prescriptive (that is, useful for the definition of the construction requirements for buildings and other infrastructure) and seismic losses depend on the vulnerability of the exposed structural elements.
Since the dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive, we will not change a definition solely because we or others believe a word should be used differently".
In the present case, however, focus will be restricted to five basic approaches to definition and conceptualization: etymological, essential, prescriptive, linguistic, and pragmatic.
We argue that philosophy may help addressing them: it may fix a definition of function and illustrates how descriptive and prescriptive modelling can be distinguished and connected.
But even with this apparently de-structured approach the "garbage can" model was not only a descriptive tool, a number of prescriptive implications could be derived from it: work on problem re-definition; try to bring in new actors; try to establish new connections between problem-holders and solutions providers; renounce to any comprehensive treatment.
15 22 Indeed, a primary criticism of the WHO definition of health is that its declaration of "complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing" 6 is prescriptive rather than descriptive.
This paper describes the semantic challenge underlying the concept of a coherent set of system properties, a sampling of various efforts to ascribe meaning to particular ilities, and proposes a prescriptive 20 category semantic basis for specifying a set of ilities, while avoiding the assertion of new definitions.
Those shows are prescriptive.
