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  (făk'tər)

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1. One that actively contributes to an accomplishment, result, or process: “Surprise is the greatest factor in war” (Tom Clancy). See synonyms at element.
2. 1. One who acts for someone else; an agent.
   2. A person or firm that accepts accounts receivable as security for short-term loans.
3. Mathematics. One of two or more quantities that divides a given quantity without a remainder. For example, 2 and 3 are factors of 6; a and b are factors of ab.
4. A quantity by which a stated quantity is multiplied or divided, so as to indicate an increase or decrease in a measurement: The rate increased by a factor of ten.
5. A gene. No longer in technical usage.
6. Physiology. A substance that functions in a specific biochemical reaction or bodily process, such as blood coagulation.

To determine or indicate explicitly the factors of.

factor in

1. To figure in: We factored sick days and vacations in when we prepared the work schedule.

[Middle English factour, perpetrator, agent, from Old French facteur, from Latin factor, maker, from facere, to make.]

A number that divides evenly into another number. For example, 3 and 4 are factors of 12. See factorial and IFP.

1. A financial intermediary that purchases receivables from companies.

2. In terms of mortgages, the ratio of principal outstanding to the original balance.

Investopedia Says:
1. The sale of accounts receivables is called factoring.

Third party who provides the marketer with cash by purchasing, or taking a lien against, the accounts receivable or inventories of the marketer. A factor who purchases the accounts receivable assumes all risk and responsibility for collection. Sale of accounts receivable to a factor is risky in that the factor is dealing directly with the marketer's customers and may antagonize them or be perceived as an indication that the marketer is having financial difficulties. Factors are most often used by industrial marketers.

noun

1. One of the individual entities contributing to a whole: building block, component, constituent, element, ingredient, integrant, part. See part/whole.
2. One of the conditions or facts attending an event and having some bearing on it: circumstance, detail, fact, particular. See real/imaginary.

See coefficient of X.

A constituent, element, cause, or agent that influences a process or system; a gene; a dietary substance.

n. a circumstance, fact, or influence that contributes to a result or outcome: she worked fast, conscious of the time factor.

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A component, constituent part, or condition that contributes to a result.

An event, circumstance, influence, or element that plays a part in bringing about a result.

A factor in a case contributes to its causation or outcome. In the area of negligence law, the factors, or chain of causation, are important in determining whether liability ensues from a particular action done by the defendant.

An agent or element that contributes to the production of a result. In epidemiology and statistics called also a variable because the factor may have a number of values. In an experiment a factor is a type of treatment and in the experiment the factor will be represented in different groups by different values. Such a factor may originate spontaneously or be introduced by an investigator.

• f. analysis — a statistical method for analyzing the correlations between several variables.
• antihemorrhagic f. — vitamin K.
• antinuclear f. (ANF) — antinuclear antibody.
• antirachitic f. — vitamin D.
• f. B — a complement component (C3 proactivator) that participates in the alternate complement pathway.
• C3 nephritic f. — a gamma globulin that is not an immunoglobulin, which is found in the plasma of certain individuals with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis associated with hypocomplementemia; it initiates the alternate complement pathway.
• citrovorum f. — folinic acid.
• clotting f's, coagulation f's — factors essential to normal blood clotting, whose absence, diminution or excess may lead to abnormality of the clotting mechanism. See also clotting factors.
• f. D — a factor that, when activated, serves as a serine esterase in the alternate complement pathway.
• extrinsic f. — a hematopoietic vitamin that combines with intrinsic factor for absorption from the intestine and is needed for erythrocyte maturation; called also cyanocobalamin and vitamin B₁₂.
• F f., fertility f. — the plasmid that determines the mating type of conjugating bacteria, being present in the donor (male) bacterium and absent in the recipient (female).
• f's I to XIII — see clotting factors and names of individual factors.
• f. VIII activity — a test for hemophilia A; activity is measured in biologic assays using factor VIII-deficient plasma as the substrate.
• f. VIII-related antigen — von Willebrand antigen.
• f. IX deficiency — see plasma thromboplastin component (PTC).
• f. IX complex — a sterile, freeze-dried powder containing coagulation factors II, VII, IX and X.
• f. X deficiency — see stuart factor.
• f. XI deficiency — see plasma thromboplastin antecedent (PTA).
• f. XII deficiency — see hageman factor.
• fibrin stabilizing f. — factor XIII, one of the blood clotting factors that converts soluble fibrin monomer to insoluble, stable fibrin polymer.
• intrinsic f. — a glycoprotein secreted by the parietal cells of the gastric glands, necessary for the absorption of vitamin B₁₂ (cyanocobalamin, extrinsic factor). Its absence in humans results in pernicious anemia. Porcine stomach is a very rich source.
• LE f. — an immunoglobulin (a 7S antibody) that reacts with leukocyte nuclei, found in the serum in systemic lupus erythematosus.
• f. loading — a relationship between observable manifestations (or variables) and the underlying factors affecting the variables.
• lymph node permeability f. (LNPF) — a substance from normal lymph nodes which produces vascular permeability.
• lymphocyte transforming f. (LTF) — a lymphokine causing transformation and clonal expansion of lymphocytes.
• osteoclast activating f. — substance produced by lymphocytes which facilitates bone resorption.
• platelet f's — factors important in hemostasis that are contained in or attached to the platelets. See also platelet factors.
• platelet-activating f. (PAF) — an immunologically produced substance which leads to clumping and degranulation of blood platelets.
• R f., resistance f. — a bacterial plasmid (R plasmid) which carries genes for antimicrobial resistance; it can be transmitted to other bacterial cells by conjugation, as well as to daughter cells.
• release f. — a protein that binds directly to any stop codon that reaches the A site on the ribosome.
• releasing f's — factors elaborated in one structure (as in the hypothalamus) that effect the release of hormones from another structure (as from the anterior pituitary gland), including corticotropin releasing factor, melanocyte-stimulating hormone releasing factor and prolactin releasing factor. Applied to substances of unknown chemical structure, while substances of established chemical identity are called releasing hormones.
• transfer f. (TF) — a factor released from sensitized lymphocytes that has the capacity to transfer delayed hypersensitivity to a normal (nonsensitized) animal. See also transfer factor.

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 estate
• FACTOR, the Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Records
• Factors of production, a resource used in the production of goods and services
• An 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 Factor
• Max Factor, a cosmetics company founded by Max Factor, Sr.
• John Factor, a Prohibition-era gangster

In science:

• An enzyme, proteins that catalyze chemical reactions
• Coagulation factors, substances essential for blood coagulation
• A phenomenon presumed to affect an experiment; see design of experiments

In mathematics:

• Factorization the decomposition of an object into a product of other objects
• Integer factorization, the process of breaking down a composite number into smaller non-trivial divisors
• a coefficient
• a divisor of a particular number
• a von Neumann algebra with a trivial center
• In easier words: A number that you can multiply into bigger numbers.

In technology:

• Factor (programming language), a dynamically typed concatenative programming language
• Authentication factor, a piece of information used to verify a person's identity for security purposes
• Human factors, a profession that focuses on how people interact with products, tools, or procedures
• "Functionality, Application domain, Conditions, Technology, Objects and Responsibility;", In object-oriented programming

In television:

• The O'Reilly Factor, an American talk show hosted by Bill O'Reilly on Fox News.
• The Krypton Factor, a British game show hosted by Gordon Burns, formally on ITV. Also had an American version.

See also

• X Factor

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - faktor, forhold, omstændighed, agent, kommissionær, forvalter
v. tr. - opløse i faktorer, indregne

idioms:

• factor analysis    faktoranalyse
• factor in    indregne
• factor into    regne med i

Nederlands (Dutch)
factor, handelaar, agent, gen (genetische factor), in factoren ontbinden

Français (French)
n. - facteur, courtier, commissionnaire, régisseur, (Math) facteur, (Comm) courtier, facteur (de dettes), (Écosse) régisseur, (Tech) coefficient (de sécurité)
v. tr. - (Comm) agir en tant qu'agent à la commission, (Math) mettre (qch) en facteur, factoriser

idioms:

• factor analysis    analyse factorielle
• factor in    prendre en compte
• factor into    prendre en compte
• factor out    ne pas tenir compte de, ignorer

Deutsch (German)
n. - Faktor, Erbfaktor, Agent, Gutsverwalter
v. - sich als Agent betätigen

idioms:

• factor analysis    Faktoranlayse
• factor in    in Faktoren zerlegen
• factor into    in Faktoren zerlegen
• factor out    (Math) ausklammern

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - παράγοντας, συντελεστής, (μαθημ.) παράγων, διαιρέτης
v. - (μαθημ.) βρίσκω τους διαιρέτες ενός αριθμού

idioms:

• factor analysis    (μαθημ.) παραγοντική ανάλυση
• factor in    περιλαμβάνω στους υπολογισμούς μου
• factor into    περιλαμβάνω στους υπολογισμούς μου

Italiano (Italian)
fattore

idioms:

• factor analysis    analisi fattoriale
• factor in/into    aggregare

Português (Portuguese)
n. - fator (m)
v. - decompor em fatores

idioms:

• factor analysis    análise (f) dos fatores
• factor in/into    levar em consideração

Русский (Russian)
фактор, агент, посредник, множитель, управляющий

idioms:

• factor analysis    анализ множителей
• factor in/into    разлагать на множители

Español (Spanish)
n. - factor, elemento
v. tr. - descomponer o dividir en factores

idioms:

• factor analysis    análisis de factores (estadística)
• factor in    tomar en cuenta, incluir en el cálculo
• factor into    tomar en cuenta, incluir en el cálculo
• factor out    excluir del cálculo o decisión

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - faktor (matem.), orsak, agent, förvaltare, gen
v. - dela upp i faktorer (matem.)

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
因素, 代理人, 因数, 分解...的因子, 把...作为因素计入, 把...分解成, 代理经营

idioms:

• factor analysis    因素分析, 因子分析
• factor in    把...作为因子计入
• factor into    把...作为因子计入, 把...分解成

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 因素, 代理人, 因數
v. tr. - 分解...的因數, 把...作為因素計入, 把...分解成, 代理經營

idioms:

• factor analysis    因素分析, 因子分析
• factor in    把...作為因數計入
• factor into    把...作為因數計入, 把...分解成

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 요인, 대리인
v. tr. - ~을 인수로 분해하다, ~을 요소에 넣다

idioms:

• factor in    (계산 등의)인자로 포함하다
• factor into    (계산 등의)인자로 포함하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 要因, 要素, 因数, 因子, 係数, 代理人, 代理店, 仲買人

idioms:

• factor analysis    因子分析
• factor in/into    計算に入れる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) عامل (فعل) يحلل إلى العوامل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮גורם, עמיל, סוכן‬
v. tr. - ‮חילק לגורמים או למרכיבים (מתמטיקה)‬

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