factor

IPA: fˈæktɝ

(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.

(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.

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.