factor
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
commerce
commercial
economics
law
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French facteur, from Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”).
Inflected forms:
form: factors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: factour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: factors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: factoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: factored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: factored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: factour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The factor of the trading post bought the furs.
gloss: An agent or representative; a reseller or distributor (sometimes with a private label); a consignee.
pos: noun
examples: My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled / That owes me for a hundred tun of wine.
And let such as will number the Kings of Castile and Portugall amongst the warlike and magnanimous conquerors, seeke for some other adherent then my selfe, forsomuch as twelve hundred leagues from their idle residence they have made themselves masters of both Indias, onely by the conduct and direction of their factors, of whom it would be knowne whether they durst but goe and enjoy them in person.
What does he therefore, but resolvs to give over toyling, and to find himself out som factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs; som Divine of note and estimation that must be.
Motor factors — Good factors will stock all of the more important components which wear out relatively quickly.
gloss: A commission agent.
pos: noun
gloss: A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
pos: noun
gloss: A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
pos: noun
examples: The greatest factor in the decision was the need for public transportation.
The economy was a factor in this year's budget figures.
1864-1898, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology
the material and dynamical factors of nutrition
The UN, for its part, has suggested eating insects as a way of feeding those extra mouths, which may put the frankenmeat ick factor in perspective.
gloss: Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
pos: noun
examples: 3 is a factor of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6.
The factors of the Klein four-group are both cyclic of order 2.
The formula adjusts for region and season by multiplying by a prescribed factor for each.
The first thousand primes[…]marched in order before him[…]the complete sequence of all those numbers that possessed no factors except themselves and unity.
gloss: Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
pos: noun
examples: The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster.
Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
gloss: A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
pos: noun
examples: The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
gloss: A steward or bailiff of an estate.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: the factor was so scrupulous, as to keep the whole thing from his master, the lord chamberlain
gloss: To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To rewrite an expression as the product of its factors.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be a product of other objects.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: fact
faction
factory
fashion
successor
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log(base) =
Derived words: absolute uterine factor infertility
absorption factor
A factor
aggravating factor
antihemophilic factor A
antihemophilic factor B
anti-nuclear factor
Bambi factor
bifactor
biofactor
breakeven load factor
bugger factor
bus factor
care factor
care factor zero
CDI factor
Christmas factor
citrovorum factor
clotting factor
coagulation factor
cofactor
contempt factor
cord factor
corn-factor
correction factor
counterfactor
critical success factor
crunch factor
currency adjustment factor
Darcy friction factor
death factor
dissipation factor
duh factor
eigenfactor
factorability
factorable
factorage
factor analysis
factoress
factor graph
factorial
factorial experiment
factorial table
factor ideal
factor II
factorist
factor IX
factorization
factorize
factorless
factor market
factor ring
factorship
factor space
factor through
factor VII
factor VIII
factress
Falklands factor
feel-good factor
fit factor
formfactor
fudge factor
g-factor
Gladue factor
granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor
greatest common factor
growth factor
gut factor
highest common factor
ick factor
immunofactor
impact factor
interfactor
judicial factor
kata factor
latte factor
limiting factor
Lorentz factor
match factor
misfactor
mitigating factor
motor factor
multifactor
multi-factor authentication
nerve growth factor
neurofactor
nonfactor
oncofactor
overfactorization
P-factor
phase factor
plus factor
power factor
prefactor
prime factor
pucker factor
Q factor
red factor canary
Revelle factor
Rhesus factor
Rh factor
risk factor
safety factor
sleaze factor
space factor
subfactor
sun protection factor
superfactor
telefactor
time factor
tissue factor
transfactor
trifactor
tumor necrosis factor
tumour necrosis factor
two-factor authentication
underfactorization
van 't Hoff factor
vascular endothelial growth factor
von Willebrand factor
warp factor
wife acceptance factor
wow factor
X factor
x-factor
x factor
X-factor
yuck factor
factor in
factor out
refactor
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: عَامِل
roman: ʕāmil
lang: Azerbaijani
word: amil
lang: Belarusian
word: фа́ктар
roman: fáktar
lang: Belarusian
word: чы́ннік
roman: čýnnik
lang: Belarusian
word: чы́ньнік
roman: čýnʹnik
lang: Bulgarian
word: фа́ктор
roman: fáktor
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 因子
roman: yīnzǐ
lang: Czech
word: faktor
lang: Danish
word: faktor
lang: Estonian
word: tegur
lang: Finnish
word: tekijä
lang: French
word: facteur
lang: Galician
word: factor
lang: German
word: Faktor
lang: Greek
word: παράγοντας
roman: parágontas
lang: Hebrew
word: גּוֹרֵם
roman: gorém
lang: Hebrew
word: חלק אינטגרלי
roman: khelék integráli
lang: Hindi
word: घटक
roman: ghaṭak
lang: Hungarian
word: tényező
lang: Hungarian
word: elem
lang: Hungarian
word: faktor
lang: Indonesian
word: faktor
lang: Irish
word: toisc
lang: Italian
word: fattore
lang: Japanese
word: 因子
roman: inshi
lang: Khmer
word: កត្តា
roman: kɑɑkɑttaa
lang: Korean
word: 인자
roman: inja
lang: Malay
word: faktor
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: faktor
lang: Iranian Persian
word: فاکْتور
roman: fâktor
lang: Polish
word: czynnik
lang: Polish
word: faktor
lang: Portuguese
word: factor
lang: Russian
word: фа́ктор
roman: fáktor
lang: Russian
word: дви́жущая си́ла
roman: dvížuščaja síla
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: činilac
lang: Spanish
word: factor
lang: Swedish
word: faktor
lang: Tagalog
word: salik
lang: Thai
word: ปัจจัย
roman: bpàt-jai
lang: Turkish
word: etken
lang: Turkish
word: faktör
lang: Ukrainian
word: чи́нник
roman: čýnnyk
lang: Ukrainian
word: фа́ктор
roman: fáktor
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿאַקטאָר
roman: faktor