"scope of the definition" is correct and can be used in written English.
The phrase is usually used to refer to the range of things that are included in a particular definition. For example, "The scope of the definition of communication includes verbal, non-verbal, written, and digital forms."
Ministers disagreed in public over the scope of the definition of secrecy, causing further alarm.
The employee-owned retailer John Lewis, while technically not a co-op, falls under the scope of the definition used by the researchers at Co-operatives UK, the body that compiles the annual outlook for the sector.
The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Senator Leahy acknowledged that "protection against these foreign-based threats by any lawful means is within the scope of the definition of 'foreign intelligence information,' and the use of FISA to gather evidence for the enforcement of these laws was contemplated in the enactment of FISA"...
"This is expanding the scope of the definition of campaign contribution," said Ron Wright, a law professor at Wake Forest University who is not involved in the case.
However, WWF is concerned about this definition being used in legislation, as it could result unnecessarily in long delays in confirming which chemicals fall within the scope of the definition.
Although estimates on the prevalence of the disorder vary widely depending on the scope of the definition of the term, the most recent studies consistently reveal higher prevalence or incidence rates (depending how the study was designed) of both the narrow and broad definitions.
Yet nearly a quarter of the newspaper articles used the term euthanasia for practices that are outside the scope of this definition.
Then if necessary, we can broaden the scope of this definition in various ways and see how the predictive model performs with different definitions.
The spectrum of brain dysfunction encountered in hospitalized, acutely ill patients includes significant neurobehavioral abnormalities that fall outside the scope of this definition, either because sedation or coma prevented access to the patient's mental life, a problem that was encountered in DECCA, or because delirium criteria are not met [ 6].
34 As our claims database does not contain BI-RADS information, we modified the scope of this definition to be inclusive of all follow-up services directly consequent to the original mammogram, referred to hereon as "follow-up services".
Within the scope of this definition, not only paintings and sculptures but also buildings, furniture, automobiles, cities, and garbage dumps are all works of art: every change that human activity has wrought upon the face of nature is art, be it good or bad, beautiful or ugly, beneficial or destructive.
