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 Dictionary entry overview: What does defined mean? 

• DEFINED (adjective)
  The adjective DEFINED has 2 senses:

1. clearly characterized or delimited

2. showing clearly the outline or profile or boundary

  Familiarity information: DEFINED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEFINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clearly characterized or delimited

Context example:

each child has clearly defined duties

Also:

definite (precise; explicit and clearly defined)

Antonym:

undefined (not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Showing clearly the outline or profile or boundary

Synonyms:

defined; outlined

Context example:

the setting sun showed the outlined figure of a man standing on the hill

Similar:

distinct (easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined)

 Context examples 

The tail is remarkably well-defined, straight and smooth, and has clear edges.

(Hubble Sees Plunging Galaxy Losing Its Gas, NASA)

"This study brings us one step closer toward teasing out the effects in people with biomarker defined Alzheimer's."

(Aerobic Exercise Slows Cognitive Decline in Adults at Risk of Alzheimer's, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Grade 0 is universally defined as absence of Adverse Events or within normal limits or values.

(Absent Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus)

Any action that can, in the context of a study or a post-marketing investigation, be defined, planned, scheduled or performed.

(Activity, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A location defined for administrative purposes.

(Administrative District, NCI Thesaurus)

The period during which a medical product retains its properties and stated performance within specified limits if stored under defined conditions.

(Medical Product Shelf Life, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Their spatial and temporal boundaries are clearly defined and in just a matter of days the existing communities disappear, and new ones, composed of different organisms altogether, occupy their place.

(Study by UGR and MIT reveals microbial plankton live in complex communities, University of Granada)

The tumor is composed of small round cells with scanty cytoplasm arranged in a trabecular pattern, or in ill-defined nodules or in a diffuse pattern.

(Merkel cell carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Another large area with well-defined signatures is found across the northwest part of the crater rim and ejecta.

(Dawn Discovers Evidence for Organic Material on Ceres, NASA)

They defined moderate to vigorous activity in terms of walking speed and the number of steps taken per minute as measured by a pedometer.

(Another Reason to Exercise: Protecting Your Sight, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)