Near to the scope or range of something

Usage examples of ballpark.

He had known Lo Manto for only a few days, but had him pegged well enough to know there was always some plan brewing with every action he took, even one as simple as a night at a ballpark.

If we tried to use a perturbative approach by, say, singling out the gravitational attraction between two stars and using it to determine our ballpark approximation, we would quickly find that our approach had failed.

Instead, string theorists have cast these calculations into a perturbative framework based on the expectation that a reasonable ballpark estimate is given by the zero-loop processes, with the loop diagrams resulting in refinements that get smaller as the number of loops increases.

You were working a smut job for Ad Vice then, and smut and sadomasochist paraphernalia are in the same ballpark.

They wanted to hear what they were used to and gospel was popping up on radio stations everywhere, gaining a brand-new audience in the North, and the crowds of fans soon outgrew the small church and school auditoriums and moved into the large auditoriums of the big cities and ballparks.

But the examples of Greg Maddux and Kevin Millwood suggested that defense and ballparks might be of secondary importance.

They pitched in front of the same group of fielders, and, usually, in the same ballparks.

Finding a small number of Calabi-Yau shapes that, with our present, fairly coarse ability to determine detailed physical implications, appear to be well within the ballpark of acceptability is an extremely encouraging outcome.

In a ballpark built for sluggers, he pitched fifty-one innings with an earned run average of 1.

They can take us a long way toward understanding, in the sense of a ballpark estimate, the properties of the string vibrations that we hope will align with the particles we observe.

Besides, the wererats are still there, and most of them are ex-mercenaries, or something in that ballpark.

But to trust the accuracy of the results found, one must determine whether the supposedly ballpark approximations that ignore all but the first few diagrams in Figure 12.

In our mind's eye we see a guy with a huge belly hanging over the white belt of his checked pants (all those ballpark bratwursts), a brick-red complexion (all those ballpark beers, not to mention all that bellowing at the dastardly umps), and a squat, broad neck (perfect for housing those asbestos vocal cords).

The Fifth Councilmanic District, which has a 25% Negro population, became a litmus test: how would voters respond when an entire campaign revolved around whether or not to relocate impoverished Latin Americans in an attempt to create space for a Los Angeles Dodgers ballpark?

And so, we can get a ballpark estimate by considering only the sun's gravitational influence.