> Is there any way the authors could have kept your definition, and somehow credited you, even anonymously? It's not uncommon for the acknowledgements section

> Is there any way the authors could have kept your definition, and somehow credited you, even anonymously? It's not uncommon for the acknowledgements section of a paper to thank an anonymous reviewer for, e.g., suggesting the authors further investigate a detail that turned out to be important. But in this case, where the authors couldn't write their own explanation of a technical term, maybe it's a bit premature for them to be writing technical papers.