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Factor
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization. obsolete
"The factor of the trading post bought the furs."
- 2 (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity wordnet
- 3 An agent or representative; a reseller or distributor (sometimes with a private label); a consignee.
"My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled / That owes me for a hundred tun of wine."
- 4 an independent variable in statistics wordnet
- 5 A commission agent.
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- 6 an abstract part of something wordnet
- 7 A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
- 8 anything that contributes causally to a result wordnet
- 9 A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
- 10 a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission wordnet
- 11 One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
"The greatest factor in the decision was the need for public transportation."
- 12 any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together wordnet
- 13 Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
"3 is a factor of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6."
- 14 one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer wordnet
- 15 Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
"The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster."
- 16 A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
"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."
- 17 A steward or bailiff of an estate. Scotland
"the factor was so scrupulous, as to keep the whole thing from his master, the lord chamberlain"
- 1 To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly). transitive
- 2 resolve into factors wordnet
- 3 To rewrite an expression as the product of its factors. transitive
- 4 consider as relevant when making a decision wordnet
- 5 To be a product of other objects. intransitive
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- 6 be a contributing factor wordnet
- 7 To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect. transitive
Etymology
From Middle French facteur, from Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”).
From Middle French facteur, from Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”).
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