English Dictionary

X factor

名詞

慣用表現

(idiomatic) An unknown or hard-to-define influence; a factor with unknown or unforeseeable consequences. / (idiomatic) A special talent, ability or quality or its indefinable cause.

日本語の意味

未知または定義しにくい影響、予測不可能な結果をもたらす要因 / 特別な才能、能力、または品質（その根底にある理由が定義しにくいもの）

The team's unexpected success was largely due to an X factor that no one could identify.

チームの予想外の成功は、誰にも特定できない説明しがたい影響によるところが大きかった。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) An unknown or hard-to-define influence; a factor with unknown or unforeseeable consequences.

We slid into our office, past two women discussing the X factor, an apparently undefined quality their firm felt they lacked.

意味（2）

(idiomatic) A special talent, ability or quality or its indefinable cause.

意味（3）

Prothrombinase, also called factor X.

意味（4）

(astrophysics) The proportionality constant which converts CO emission line brightness to molecular hydrogen mass.

X factors （ plural ）