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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"baseball stadium," 1899, from (base)ball + park (n.). Figurative sense of "acceptable range of approximation" first recorded 1954, originally in the jargon of atomic weapons scientists, perhaps originally referring to area within which a missile was expected to return to earth; the reference is to broad but reasonably predictable dimensions.\n\nThe result, according to the author's estimate, is a stockpile equivalent to one billion tons of TNT. Assuming this estimate is "in the ball park," clearly there is valid reason for urging candor on the part of our government.
[Ralph E. Lapp, "Atomic Candor," in "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists," October 1954]
Wiktionary
approximate; close; on the right order of magnitude. n. 1 (context US English) A field, stadium or park where ball, especially baseball, is played. 2 (context US figuratively English) The general vicinity; somewhere close; a broad approximation. v
To make a rough estimate.
WordNet
n. a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games); "take me out to the ballpark" [syn: park]
near to the scope or range of something; "his answer wasn't even in the right ballpark" [syn: approximate range]
Wikipedia
Ballpark is a light rail station in the People's Freeway neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States, served by all three lines of Utah Transit Authority's TRAX light rail system. The Blue Line provides service from Downtown Salt Lake City to Draper. The Red Line provides service from the University of Utah to the Daybreak Community of South Jordan. The Green Line provides service from the Salt Lake City International Airport to West Valley City (via Downtown Salt Lake City).
A ball park (or ballpark, also known as a baseball park or baseball stadium), is a venue where baseball is played.
For baseball parks- including those with "ball park" and "ballpark" in their name- see Lists of baseball parks.
Ball park or ballpark may also refer to:
- Ball Park Music, a five-piece indie rock/pop band based in Brisbane, Australia
- Ball Park Franks, the name of a brand of hot dogs made by Hillshire Brands
- Ballpark (UTA station), a light rail station in the People's Freeway neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States
- Ballpark model, a system under which users of a facility do so at their own risk
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.