English Dictionary

operational definition

名詞

A showing of something — such as a variable, term, or object — in terms of the specific process or set of validation tests used to determine its presence and quantity.

日本語の意味

変数、用語、対象などが、特定の手続きや検証テストを用いてその存在や量を決定・示すための定義。 / 特定の操作や測定方法に基づいて、対象物の存在や数量を評価する際の定義

To ensure consistent results across studies, the researchers agreed on an operational definition of stress as the number of stressful events reported in the past month.

研究間で結果の一貫性を確保するため、研究者たちはストレスの操作的定義を過去1か月に報告されたストレス出来事の数とすることで合意した。

意味（1）

A showing of something — such as a variable, term, or object — in terms of the specific process or set of validation tests used to determine its presence and quantity.

The position of certain recent publications is examined and criticized because they seem to imply (a) that under some circumstances ambiguous concepts are more useful than precise ones and (b) that operational difinitions are of limited usefulness in sociology because of their dependence upon quantitative characteristics, whereas some items referred to by sociological concepts are essentially qualitative in nature. Both assumptions are here questioned.

operational definitions （ plural ）