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The phrase "was initially defined" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean that something was defined or established at the beginning. For example, you might say "The term 'scope creep' was initially defined in the software engineering industry in the 1990s."
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BLN configuration was initially defined in natural language, and had passed some initial tests and simulation-based analysis.
The role was initially defined by us, but evolved in these two organisations.
Product model was initially defined in the ISO 10303 standard by the International Organization for Standardization ISOO).
The Young integral was initially defined for functions with p-variation in the work of Young [26].
end{aligned} (1.2 The geometric mean for (t= 1/2) was initially defined and studied by Pusz and Woronowicz [36].
The discrete cosine transform (DCT) which is the most widely used technique for image compression was initially defined in [1].
In fact this notion is not new and was initially defined by Kantorovich [25] as a K-metric space [25, 26].
This threshold was initially defined as the first month when the municipality reported at least one reimbursement claim for electronic prescriptions.
Previous definitions of chemical quantity involved Avogadro's number, a historical term closely related to the Avogadro constant but defined differently: Avogadro's number was initially defined by Jean Baptiste Perrin as the number of atoms in one gram-molecule of atomic hydrogen, meaning (in modern terminology) one gram of (atomic) hydrogen.
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The pathway distance was initially defined as the shortest path between two enzymes; if two enzymes catalyze same reaction, then the pathway distance becomes zero.
The nature of the technical assistance to DPMAS was initially defined jointly by UNICEF and the MMAS.
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