facient

See also: -facient

English

Etymology

From Latin faciens, facientis, present participle of facere (“do, make”).

Noun

facient (plural facients)

1. (obsolete) One who does something; a doer; an agent.
   • 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata:

     The Fact is here confess'd : But is Sin in the Fact , or in the Mind of the Facient

2. (mathematics) One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
3. A multiplier.

Usage notes

The terms facient, faciend, and factum may imply that the multiplication involved is not ordinary multiplication, but some specified operation or a placeholder for any mathematical operation.

References

• “facient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• actifen

Latin

Verb

facient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of faciō