factor

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A doer, maker

   A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.

   • The factor of the trading post bought the furs.
2. 2

   An agent or representative

   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.
   • 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.
3. 3

   A commission agent.

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   1. 4

      A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture

      A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.

   2. 5

      A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects…

      A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.

   3. 6

      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.
      • 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
   4. 7

      Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.

      • 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.
   5. 8

      Influence

      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.
   6. 9

      A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.

   7. 10

      A steward or bailiff of an estate.

      • the factor was so scrupulous, as to keep the whole thing from his master, the lord chamberlain
   8. 11

      To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that…

      To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).

   9. 12

      To rewrite an expression as the product of its factors.

   10. 13

       To be a product of other objects.

   11. 14

       To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.

   12. 15

       A surname.

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• neighbor× ×... =multiplication, factorization; factor
• neighborlog(base) =logarithmization
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