MULTIFACTORIAL

multifactorial

(adjective) involving or depending on several factors or causes (especially pertaining to a condition or disease resulting from the interaction of many genes)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

multifactorial (not comparable)

Involving, or controlled by multiple factors

(genetics, of a trait) Involving multiple genetic and/or environmental factors

Noun

multifactorial (plural multifactorials)

(maths) A generalisation of a factorial in which each element to be multiplied differs from the next by an integer (e.g. n(n-3)(n-6)(n-9)...)

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