Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word FACTOR

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Definitions of FACTOR

1. An agent or representative.
2. One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
3. (obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
4. (legal)
5. (mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
6. (causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
7. (economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
8. (Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
9. (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
10. (of a number or other mathematical object, intransitive) To be a product of other objects.
11. (commercial, transitive) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
12. A surname.

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Examples of Using FACTOR in a Sentence

• Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities.
• In 1907, Axel Holst and Theodor Frølich discovered that the antiscorbutic factor was a water-soluble chemical substance, distinct from the one that prevented beriberi.
• Automated reasoning over mathematical proof was a major motivating factor for the development of computer science.
• Conversion of units is the conversion of the unit of measurement in which a quantity is expressed, typically through a multiplicative conversion factor that changes the unit without changing the quantity.
• A centimetre or centimeter (US/Philippine spelling), with SI symbol cm, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one hundredth of a metre, centi being the SI prefix for a factor of.
• In mathematics, the Chinese remainder theorem states that if one knows the remainders of the Euclidean division of an integer n by several integers, then one can determine uniquely the remainder of the division of n by the product of these integers, under the condition that the divisors are pairwise coprime (no two divisors share a common factor other than 1).
• Dividing a polynomial by a linear factor which decreases its degree by one in multiple root-finding algorithms, as done for example in the Jenkins–Traub algorithm.
• When expressing root-power quantities, a change in amplitude by a factor of 10 corresponds to a 20 dB change in level.
• A total of three primitive (that is, in which the summands do not all have a common factor) counterexamples are known:.
• A quotient group or factor group is a mathematical group obtained by aggregating similar elements of a larger group using an equivalence relation that preserves some of the group structure (the rest of the structure is "factored out").
• In mathematics, the greatest common divisor (GCD), also known as greatest common factor (GCF), of two or more integers, which are not all zero, is the largest positive integer that divides each of the integers.
• The original model was followed in 2003 by the Game Boy Advance SP, a redesigned model with a frontlit screen and clamshell form factor.
• A growth factor is a naturally occurring substance capable of stimulating cell proliferation, wound healing, and occasionally cellular differentiation.
• He was the first to apply the term travail (translated as "work") for the transfer of energy by a force acting through a distance, and he prefixed the factor ½ to Leibniz's concept of vis viva, thus specifying today's kinetic energy.
• There are two main types of haemophilia: haemophilia A, which occurs due to low amounts of clotting factor VIII, and haemophilia B, which occurs due to low levels of clotting factor IX.
• Insulin-like growth factor 1 (commonly referred to as IGF-1 or at times using Roman numerals as IGF-I) is mainly secreted by the liver as a result of stimulation by growth hormone (GH).
• Since 1970, the government has given high priority to education in order to develop a domestic work force, which the government considers a vital factor in the country's economic and social progress.
• Some scholars theorize that the slave trade's impact on the male-to-female sex ratio was a key factor in the emergence and fortification of polygynous practices in regions of Africa.
• His failing health was the factor that made him so reluctant to accept his pontifical election and his health was so poor that he fell to illness during his coronation.
• Practice on its conversion to national currencies varies from state to state; in most states the conversion factor is based not on the market price of gold, but on an official price (a remnant of the gold standard, frequently far below its market price today).

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