"X factor" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1992, Lia Matera, Prior Convictions, page 121:",
          "text": "We slid into our office, past two women discussing the \"X factor,\" an apparently undefined quality their firm felt they lacked.",
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          "ref": "1999, Joel R. DeLuca, Political Savvy: Systematic Approaches to Leadership Behind the Scenes, page 75:",
          "text": "The map can be misleading. It can appear to contain all the relevant information, but in real life, there is always an X factor.",
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          "ref": "2007, Tasmina Perry, Daddy's Girls, page 12:",
          "text": "And put him on an LA film set and he glowed with that indefinable X-factor that agents the world over wished they could bottle.",
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          "ref": "2007 December 31, Fareed Zakaria, “The Rise of a Fierce Fragile Superpower”, in Newsweek, page 38:",
          "text": "Whether it's trade, global warming, Darfur or North Korea, China has become the new x''' factor, without which no durable solution is possible.",
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        "(idiomatic) An unknown or hard-to-define influence; a factor with unknown or unforeseeable consequences."
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          "word": "tuntematon tekijä"
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        "A special talent, ability or quality or its indefinable cause."
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        "(idiomatic) A special talent, ability or quality or its indefinable cause."
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        "Prothrombinase."
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        "The proportionality constant which converts CO emission line brightness to molecular hydrogen mass."
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        "(astrophysics) The proportionality constant which converts CO emission line brightness to molecular hydrogen mass."
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