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What is a stipulative definition?

What is a stipulative definition? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (semantics) A definition in which a new or extant term is given a new meaning for the purposes of argument or discussion in a given context.
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Although that identity began as a stipulative definition in Newtonian mechanics, Einsteinian mechanics deems it false.
In terms of lexicography, what has occurred is that a precising definition has been asserted as superior to the stipulative definition that gave rise to the term racism.
A stipulative definition of a term may, as it happens, be extensionally adequate to the antecedent uses of the term.
This term as well as their stipulative definition, needs to be clarified.
In the absence of a stipulative definition, little would be lost, indeed much stands to be gained, if the metaphorical origin of social minds were acknowledged.
In such cases, the inferential role of the stipulative definition is not mirrored by any formula of the extended language.

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