The phrase "present definition" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a definition of a word or concept that is currently accepted by accepted authorities. For example, "The present definition of ontology, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is 'A branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being.'".
"Under the new coasting rule we are going to see thousands of schools becoming academies if they take the present definition of coasting," he says.
Patients falling into the present definition of Barrett esophagus enter long-term surveillance with regular endoscopy and biopsy to detect dysplasia or early cancer for the purpose of either preventing cancer or treating an early cancer at a stage that decreases the likelihood of death.
(The present definition follows List and Pettit 2002; for generalizations, see Dietrich and Mongin 2010.
In this sense, the present definition of failure covers all the as above cases.
The present definition is intended to limit the analysis to areas where colleges and universities have a relatively large influence.
Though far more people can pursue these admittedly extremely risky investments than could in 1983, there is no evidence that the present definition has harmed individuals who would be excluded under an inflation-adjusted threshold.
It is not certain whether the dynamical and atomic scales are equivalent, but present definitions treat them as being so.
Specifically, we present definitions of lower and upper rough matroids based on relations from the viewpoint of approximation operators.
All he has to say is to negate our present definitions and expectations.
Other academic critics have attacked the present definitions of corporate criminal liability.
Further we present definitions of basic terms that we will need in the following sections.
