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well-defined

[ wel-di-fahynd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

sharply or clearly stated, outlined, described, etc.:
a well-defined character; a well-defined boundary.

well-defined

First recorded in 1695–1705

Her faith was less well defined than her views on field sports.

By contrast, exercising requires you to commit your willpower for only a short, well-defined period of time.

Twelve years later, everything has to be really well defined.

The whole point of a bohemia is that people congregate in a relatively well-defined area.

Each of them are well defined in the movie, and not stereotypes.

Cystin crystals are colorless, highly refractive, rather thick, hexagonal plates with well-defined edges.

The sides generally rather shallow, heads of exquisite form and well defined.

The edge of the reef off the latter island is not well defined, for we passed several straggling rocks.

The Crossley reflector promises to be useful in a number of fields which are fairly well defined.

It arose at an earlier period in India and Persia, but everywhere it was late in its appearance as a well-defined doctrine.

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