Factor
['fæktə] or ['fæktɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an independent variable in statistics.
(noun.) anything that contributes causally to a result; 'a number of factors determined the outcome'.
(noun.) any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together.
(verb.) resolve into factors; 'a quantum computer can factor the number 15'.
(verb.) consider as relevant when making a decision; 'You must factor in the recent developments'.
(verb.) be a contributing factor; 'make things factor into a company's profitability'.
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Definition
(n.) One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker.
(n.) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
(n.) One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product.
(n.) One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent.
(v. t.) To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Agent, broker, substitute, consignee, middleman, go-between, commission merchant.[2]. (Math.) Multiplier, element of a product.
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Definition
n. a doer or transactor of business for another: one who buys and sells goods for others on commission: (Scot.) an agent managing heritable estates for another: (math.) one of two or more parts which when multiplied together result in a given number—e.g. 6 and 4 are factors of 24: an element in the composition of anything or in bringing about a certain result.—ns. Fac′torage the fees or commission of a factor.—adj. Factō′rial of or pertaining to a factor.—v.t. Fac′torise (U.S.) to warn not to pay or give up goods: to attach the effects of a debtor in the hands of a third person.—ns. Fac′torship; Fac′tory a manufactory: a trading settlement in a distant country.—Judicial factor a person appointed by the Court to manage the estate of a person under some incapacity.
Typist: Tabitha
Examples
- The _cable car_ is a factor which has cut no small figure in the activities of city life. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The moving of passengers and freight seems to be directly related to the progress of civilization, and the factor whose influence has been most felt in this field is the steam locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Electricity a Living Factor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Essential Factor in American Life. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The study of apparatus for obtaining more perfect vacua was unceasingly carried on, for Edison realized that in this there lay a potent factor of ultimate success. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But in its case, the quality of the resulting knowledge is the controlling factor and not an incident of the activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Yes, and that is a factor which we must certainly not neglect. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The reaper was a very vital factor in the development of that country, and McCormick deserved the credit of being one of the greatest profit-builders of the land. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- A prominent factor in the electrical art is the _Storage Battery_, Secondary Battery, or Accumulator, as it is variously called. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Here we note it simply as an added factor in the heterogeneous mixture of the British Colonies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Entering as a factor into an activity pursued for its own sake--whether as a means or as a widening of the content of the aim--it is informing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The former is then thought to be purely intellectual and cognitive; the latter to be an irrelevant and intruding physical factor. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The essential factor in the organization of a living state, the world is coming to realize, is the organization of an education. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The early kodak film became the great factor in the cinematograph manufacture. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Hutton thought that t he compression under which the subterranean heat had been applied was a factor in the solution of these problems. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- To overcome these three disturbing factors a very ingenious form of balance has been devised. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In conclusion, we note that the early history of the idea of following nature combined two factors which had no inherent connection with one another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We have already noted that plasticity is the capacity to retain and carry over from prior experience factors which modify subsequent activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Two factors conspire in the later period of ancient life, however, to exalt literary and humanistic studies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- What other factors are there to be taken into consideration to explain this phenomenon? Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Intelligence is narrowed to the factors concerned with technical production and marketing of goods. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The outcome is that kind of check and balance of segregated factors and values which has been described. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Consequently, the training is much more general; that is to say, it covers a wider territory and includes more factors. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The dynamo is one of the great factors of modern civilization, and its potential name, like that of dynamite, rightly defines its character. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Clearly there are two factors in will. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The activities mentioned in Chapter XV contain within themselves the factors later discriminated into fine and useful arts. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The strength of a steady current depends upon these two factors only, the electromotive force which causes it and the resistance which it has to overcome. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If called upon to name the most important of all factors of human existence, that which underlies and sustains all others, even to life itself, everyone must agree that it is _food_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- As social life grows more complex, these factors increase in number and import. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But there are other factors to be considered. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typist: Marvin