factor
IPA: fˈæktɝ
noun
- (obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
- An agent or representative.
- (law)
- A commission agent.
- A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
- A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
- One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
- (mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
- (causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
- (economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
- (Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
- (of a number or other mathematical object, intransitive) To be a product of other objects.
- (commercial, transitive) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
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Examples of "factor" in Sentences
- Please factorize this expression.
- The numerical factors are the same.
- Factorize the expression in the denominator.
- Dehydration is always a factor in the desert.
- Consider the problem of factoring the polynomial.
- To factorize a number, you divide it into factors.
- Factors contributing to the reduction in the divide.
- It is an important factor in the socialization of pets.
- Another factor is the condition of the clothes that we wear.
- Do you know how to factorize using the highest common factor
- Another factor is the short attention span of American voters.
- Conditions of the serfdom are only a minor factor in all of that.
- Another factor that can help in the selection of the right tree is its cooling factor.
- Also a factor is the greying of fandom - as fans grow older and cease going, so less new young fans begin attending.
- As we said over and over again during the Democratic primary, gender is a factor but not * the only factor* in choosing a candidate to support.
- In your divvy up $1000 game theory scenario, the extra factor is the (ahem) principle of the thing: you describe B as motivated by irrational factors, which is essentially the same thing.
- As history reveals, all systemic failures of society and markets are a result of what I term factor imbalance – i.e., an imbalance of social, political, and marketplace power between the major economic factors, capital and labor.