What does by definition mean?

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Prepositional phrase
  1. According to, or as a matter of, definition.
  2. Necessarily; always; certainly.
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It's a club, which by definition, allows entry only for its members, at a cost, for its services.
The long-tail approach, by definition, requires you to be constantly on the prowl for underdog and underexposed offerings.
A non-custodial sentence, by definition, is regarded as something that is imposed when the person is not a serious or recidivist offender.
He is a bookseller and poet and by definition low-paid, and this has been a strain.
In the early twentieth century, logical positivism narrowed the scope of meaning in a way that made belief in God subjective by definition.
The OS by definition must include an application programming interface, and hardware interfaces in the form of device drivers.

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