| 单词 | magic number |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmagic number magic number n. (a) a figure regarded, in a particular context, as significant or momentous; (b) Sport (esp. Baseball) the number which, at a given stage in the season, signifies the combination of wins for the first-placed team and defeats for the second-placed team which will assure the former of championship victory. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > [noun] > decomposition of nucleus > capacity to resist > exceptional magic number1781 1781 London Mag. Oct. 487/1 Were there a magic number..that like a talisman would protect from danger [etc.]. 1880 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Weekly Times 11 Nov. In another window was the magic number ‘219’ in a similar triangle. 1947 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 1 Sept. 4/3 So now the ‘magic number’ is 19, which means that any combination of Brooklyn wins and St. Louis losses totalling that number would see the Cards eliminated. 1961 House & Home Oct. 216 Wherever you can use two teams on a job, five men, not four, is the magic number. 1989 P. Dickson Baseball Dict. 254/2 To determine the magic number, you combine the second place team's wins and number of games remaining. From this total subtract the leading team's number of wins. The difference plus one equals the magic number. 2001 New Scientist 18 Aug. 16/3 Ten per cent wasn't a magic number, but whatever the connectance within a given ecosystem, it remained curiously constant no matter how many new species were added to the food web. < as lemmas |
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