You and sunshineforever didn't understand how one can plagiarize a definition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28111656 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?

You and sunshineforever didn't understand how one can plagiarize a definition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28111656 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28111656 . That's a universal statement. I've been trying to argue that definitions can be plagiarized, with examples which are not "tenuous" but ones which are drawn directly from publications.