factor

n. cause; agent, broker; financier, money lender; number which is multiplied with another to produce a given product (Mathematics)

v. separate into factors (Mathematics)

FACTOR may also refer to the Object Oriented programming requirements caputre acronym "Functionality, Application domain, Conditions, Technology, Objects and Responsibility;" FACTOR (the Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Records) is a "private non-profit organization, ... dedicated to providing assistance toward the growth and development of the Canadian independent recording industry" (from their website).
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A factor, a Latin word meaning 'who/which acts' may refer to:Factor (agent), a person who acts for another, notably a mercantile and/or colonial agent Factor (Scotland), a person or firm managing a Scottish estateFACTOR, the Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on RecordsFactors of production, a resource used in the production of goods and servicesAn entity providing commercial finance services known as Factoring (finance)Max Factor, Sr., a Polish-American businessman and cosmetician Max Factor, Jr., son of the above, born Francis FactorMax Factor, a cosmetics company founded by Max Factor, Sr.John Factor, a Prohibition-era gangster
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Noun
1. anything that contributes causally to a result; "a number of factors determined the outcome"
(hypernym) cause
(hyponym) parameter
2. an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech"
(synonym) component, constituent, element, ingredient
(hypernym) part, section, division
(hyponym) point
(derivation) factorize, factorise
3. any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together
(hypernym) number
(hyponym) deflator
(derivation) factor in, factor out
4. one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer; "what are the 4 factors of 6?"
(synonym) divisor
(hypernym) integer, whole number
(hyponym) prime factor
(derivation) factor in, factor out
5. a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
(synonym) agent, broker
(hypernym) businessperson, bourgeois
(hyponym) auctioneer
(member-holonym) brokerage, brokerage firm, securities firm
6. an independent variable in statistics
(hypernym) independent variable, experimental variable
7. (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; "genes were formerly called factors"
(synonym) gene, cistron
(hypernym) sequence
(hyponym) dominant gene
(part-holonym) deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA
(classification) genetics, genetic science
Verb
1. resolve into factors; "a quantum computer can factor the number 15"
(synonym) factor in, factor out
(hypernym) calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure
(derivation) divisor
(classification) arithmetic

n. factor, broker, agent (Eocnomy)

n. factor, agent; factotum