Look up: Factor


  1. factor
    Type: Term Pronunciation: fak′tŏr Definitions: 1. One of the contributing causes in any action. 2. One of the components that by multiplication makes up a number or expression. 3. A vitamin or other essential element. 4. An event, characteristic, or other definable entity that brings abou...
    Found op http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=31609

  2. Factor
    Chief of a trading post or trading party, authorized by the company to sell or trade company merchandise.
    Found op http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm/gloss.html

  3. Factor
    A financial institution that buys a firm's accounts receivables and collects the debt.
    Found op http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/glossary/bfglosf.htm

  4. Factor
    1. Primary factor. 2. Sometimes refers to any input to production. 3. Anything that helps to cause something, as a 'contributing factor.'
    Found op http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/glossary/f.html

  5. Factor
    An independent variable under examination in an experiment as a possible cause of variation.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  6. factor
    [Noun] Plural form: factors. A fact or circumstance that helps to produce a result.
    Example: The report looked at the factors that caused stress in the workplace.

    Found op http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary/

  7. factor
    [n] - any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together 2. [n] - anything that contributes causally to a result 3. [v] - resolve into factors
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=factor

  8. Factor
    An experiment is usually designed to investigate the effect that certain factors have on an outcome, such as sex (a two-level factor; male, female), or UK nationality (a four-level factor; english, irish, scottish, welsh).
    Found op http://www.conceptstew.co.uk/PAGES/s4t_glossary_F.html

  9. Factor
    A professional property manager in Scotland who performs the same function as a management company in England and Wales
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contributions.php

  10. Factor
    A person who buys and sells goods (eg cloth) for others. Factors bought cloth from local clothiers and sold it at Blackwell Hall in London.
    Found op http://www.digitalstroud.co.uk/glossary.php?glossgroup=W-Z

  11. factor
    A number that is multiplied by another number to find a product
    Examples:
    4
    4 x 7 = 28 x 7
    28
    The factors are 4 and 7.

    Found op http://www.hbschool.com/glossary/math2/index6.html

  12. factor
    Agent who carries out business for someone on a commission basis; often a sort of debt collector.
    Found op http://www.ft.com/Common/HelpPages/tools.help.glossaryf.html



  1. Factor
    Fac'tor noun [ Latin factor a doer: confer French facteur a factor. See Fact .] 1. (Law) One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and trans...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/2

  2. Factor
    Fac'tor transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Factored (-t?rd); present participle & verbal noun Factoring .] (Machinery) To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/2

  3. factor
    <pharmacology> Any of several substances or activities that are necessary to produce a result, for example a coagulation factor. ... Often, use of the term factor indicates that the chemical nature of the substance or its mechanism of action is unknown, as in endocrinology, where factors are r...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?factor

  4. factor
    noun anything that contributes causally to a result; `a number of factors determined the outcome`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=factor

  5. factor
    factor in verb resolve into factors; `a quantum computer can factor the number 15`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=factor

  6. factor
    broker noun a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=factor

  7. factor
    noun one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer; `what are the 4 factors of 6?`
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=factor

  8. Factor
    A financial institution that buys a firm`s accounts receivable and collects the accounts.
    Found op http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg/bfglosf.htm

  9. factor
    (fak´tәr) an agent or element that contributes to the production of a result.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  10. Factor
    • (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, a...
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/factor/

  11. factor
    (from the article `agency`) Various kinds of agency relationships are evident in Anglo-American commercial life. The factor and the broker are the most common mercantile agents ... ...and credit losses. Factoring differs from borrowing in that the accounts receivable and the responsibility for their...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/f/2

  12. factor
    (from the article `statistics`) In an experimental study, variables of interest are identified. One or more of these variables, referred to as the factors of the study, are ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/f/2

  13. factor
    in mathematics, a number or algebraic expression that divides another number or expression evenly—i.e., with no remainder. For example, 3 and 6 are ... [1 related articles]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/f/2

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