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
- : 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.
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