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Multifactorial

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Involving, or controlled by multiple factors. not-comparable

    "[…] a pattern in medical research on infectious and degenerative diseases in the United States. That pattern shows three main built-in biases: 1) towards a single-agent theory of disease, as opposed to a multi-factorial analysis; 2) […]"

  2. 2
    Involving multiple genetic or environmental factors. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    involving or depending on several factors or causes (especially pertaining to a condition or disease resulting from the interaction of many genes) wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A generalization of a factorial in which each element to be multiplied differs from the next by an integer (e.g. n(n-3)(n-6)(n-9)...).

Etymology

Etymology 1

From multi- + factorial.

Etymology 2

From multi- + factorial.

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