factor

Speech parts

1. factor - Noun

2. factor - Verb

3. Factor - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

A steward or bailiff of an estate.

One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product.

One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent.

To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

element component agent ingredient divisor influence cause matter feature instrument aspect characteristic gene consideration constituent
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Antonyms

result year long total effect whole
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Hypernyms

cypher integer number study cause section

Hyponyms

point driver fundamental parameter allele modifier

Phrases with the word

key factor major factor contributing factor important factor crucial factor x factor

Derivatives

factored factoring

Examples

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear. Rutherford B. Hayes

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. Bill Gates

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. Hesiod

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life. Hjalmar Schacht

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. Theodore Roosevelt

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abudance is human attention. Kevin Kelly (editor)

Close letter words and terms

factographic factography factoid factor analyse factor analysis factor analytic