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multifactorial

adj

Etymology

From multi- + factorial.

Definitions

  1. Involving, or controlled by multiple factors.

    • […] 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) […]
    • One of the under-reported dynamics during the coronavirus pandemic has been the collapse of One Nation’s vote. The reasons for this are likely multi-factorial.

  2. Involving multiple genetic or environmental factors.

  3. A generalization of a factorial in which each element to be multiplied differs from the…

    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)...).

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