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multifactorial

/muhl-tee-fak-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-, muhl-tahy-/US // ˌmʌl ti fækˈtɔr i əl, -ˈtoʊr-, ˌmʌl taɪ- //UK // (ˌmʌltɪfækˈtɔːrɪəl) //

多因素的,多因素,多因素性,多因素性的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having or stemming from a number of different causes or influences: Some medical researchers regard cancer as a multifactorial disease.

Examples

  • Instead, experts now acknowledge that elite performance is a “multifactorial” phenomenon — meaning that it’s somewhere between extremely complicated and completely unknowable.

  • Prevailing views that people are personally responsible for their weight, despite ample scientific evidence of the complex and multifactorial causes of obesity, are one reason why weight stigma persists.

  • I think not repealing it at this point is probably multifactorial.