X factor

Meanings:

1.
USUKGeneralneutralinformal
- An indefinable or elusive quality that makes a person, performance, product, or thing especially attractive, effective, or successful.
- A distinctive charm, charisma, or special attribute that cannot be easily described but noticeably enhances appeal or impact.
2.
USUKGeneralneutral
- An unknown, unpredictable, or decisive variable in a situation; a factor that can significantly influence an outcome but whose nature or magnitude is uncertain.
3.
UKUSGeneralproper nouninformal
- The title of a televised talent competition franchise in which contestants perform and are judged, commonly referred to simply as 'The X Factor'.

Examples:

EN: - The X factor.
ES: - El factor X.
ES: - El factor x.
EN: We're talking about 130,000 patients, 200mg pills three times a day, every day, what's the X factor?
ES: Son 130.000 pacientes, píldoras de 200 mgs tres veces al día, ¿cuál es el factor X?
EN: Our goal here is to find your X factor - the element in your life that made you turn to drugs.
ES: Nuestra meta es detectar tu factor X el elemento de tu vida que te llevó a las drogas.
EN: - Well, I think we've found your X factor.
ES: -Creo que ya hallamos tu factor X.
EN: You know, you-you have that, like, kind of an X factor, that chari`sma thing.
ES: Tú sabes, tú tienes eso, como un tipo de factor X, esa cosa de carisma.
EN: It's an X factor. See, this, this is a perfectly acceptable car but this I dunno, it's more than a car somehow.
ES: el factor X mira, este, es perfectamente un coche aceptable, pero no sé, es mas que un coche de alguna manera
EN: Not just because of her looks, but that X factor.
ES: No solo por su belleza, sino por el factor X
EN: But I have the 'X factor'..
ES: Pero tengo el "factor X"...
EN: What we look for in a car is, and I'm loathed to use the word, it's an X factor.
ES: Lo que buscamos en un coche es, y estoy cansado de usar la palabra, es un factor X
EN: The X factor is coming this fall.
ES: TheX Factor viene este otoño
EN: Some of the songs still had question marks, you know, the biggest song being I Should Have Known. That song became sort of the X factor in the album.
ES: Algunas canciones todavía estaban en duda, sobre todo I should have known, que se convirtió en el expediente X del disco.
EN: The X factor isn't even on there yet.
ES: El factor X no es ni siquiera allí todavía.
EN: I define it by the number of relevant facts it contains, and I define it by an X factor that I trust Will and myself to determine, using our combined five decades in the field.
ES: La defino por el número de hechos relevantes que contiene, y la defino por un factor X, el cual confío en que Will y yo podamos determinar, usando nuestras, sumadas, cinco décadas en esto.
EN: - Except for the X factor.
ES: - Excepto por el factor X.
EN: Oscar is definitely an X factor in my theory.
ES: Oscar es definitivamente una incógnita en mi teoría.

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