Definitional Meaning

"Individually, some of these definitions fall into the common definitional trap of being overly precise." — 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 7:

"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled in 2018 that lab-grown diamonds are included in the same definitional universe as mined diamonds but warned against the use of terms like "natural" in marketing that confused the two categories." — 2020 March 10, Oliver Milman, “Are laboratory-grown diamonds the more ethical choice to say 'I do'?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2023:

"Some researchers have suggested that sentences like (27) may be ungrammatical because they are not in typical usage[…]. This comes down to a definitional issue of what it means to label a string as “grammatical”. If “grammatical” means “generated by the grammar in normal situations,” then such sentences are clearly ungrammatical because we can’t generate such sentences in normal language usage. Alternatively, if “grammatical” means “all of whose syntactic components are part of the grammar,” then such sentences are grammatical." — 2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Preliminaries: Components of Language Structure” (chapter 2), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 37: