Following the establishment of a conceptual definition, the researcher must use an operational definition to indicate how the abstract concept will be measured.

Thus, the conceptual definitions of OCB used by researches differ from study to study.

Psychology has many examples of ideas that required conceptual definitions, including intelligence, knowledge, tolerance, and preference.

- "There is no conceptual definition of invalid clicks that can be operationalized [except for certain obviously clear cases]."

Through experimentation, it is determined that laboratory measurements of forces are fully consistent with the conceptual definition of force offered by Newtonian mechanics.

The author generously quotes election results in 1997, 2007 and 2013 as the basis for a conceptual definition of "The Raila Doctrine".

The term reappeared in an article in 1935 and a book in 1938 when Karl Menninger refined his conceptual definitions of self-mutilation.

Of the available conceptual definitions in sociology, modernity is "marked and defined by an obsession with 'evidence'," visual culture, and personal visibility (Leppert 2004, 19).

The French Flag Model is a conceptual definition of a morphogen, described by Lewis Wolpert in the 1960s.

There are several mathematical and conceptual definitions of fairness.