Usually means: Clearly specified, unambiguous, and consistent.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. well-defined: Merriam-Webster
  2. well-defined: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. well-defined, well-defined: Collins English Dictionary
  4. well-defined: Vocabulary.com
  5. Well-defined, well-defined: Wordnik
  6. well-defined: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. well-defined: Wiktionary
  8. well-defined: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. well-defined: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. well-defined: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. well-defined: Dictionary.com
  12. Well-defined: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. well-defined: Rhymezone
  14. well-defined: FreeDictionary.org
  15. well-defined: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. well-defined: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. well-defined: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. well-defined: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. well-defined: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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adjective:  Having a clean and distinct outline.
adjective:  Accurately and precisely described or specified.
adjective:  (mathematics) Defined in an unambiguous and consistent way: specifically, such that any two objects implied to be identical are indeed identical.

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