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FACTORS
Noun
factors
plural of factor
Verb
factors
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of factor
Anagrams
• forcast
Proper noun
Factors
plural of Factor
Anagrams
• forcast
Source: Wiktionary
FACTOR
Fac"tor, n. Etym: [L. factor a doer: cf. F. facteur a factor. See Fact.]
1. (Law)
Definition: 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. Story. Wharton. My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled That owes me for a hundred tun of wine. Marlowe.
2. A steward or bailiff of an estate. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
3. (Math.)
Definition: One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product.
4. One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent. The materal and dynamical factors of nutrition. H. Spencer.
Fac"tor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Factored (-trd); p. pr. & vb. n. Factoring.] (Mach.)
Definition: To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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