factor

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From Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”).

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factor (plural factors)

  1. (obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization
    The factor of the trading post bought the furs.
  2. (now rare) An agent or representative.
    • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
      What does he therefore, but resolvs to give over toyling, and to find himself out som factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs; som Divine of note and estimation that must be.
  3. An integral part
    The greatest factor in the decision was the need for public transportation.
    The economy was a factor in this year's budget figures.
  4. (mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole
    3 is a factor of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6.
    The factors of the Klein four-group are both cyclic of order 2.
  5. (root cause analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence
    The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster.

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  • 1956 — Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p 38
    The first thousand primes...marched in order before him...the complete sequence of all those numbers that possessed no factors except themselves and unity.

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doer, maker
integral part
mathematical sense
influence
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  • Interlingua: factor
  • Latin: factor m
  • Spanish: factor

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factor (third-person singular simple present factors, present participle factoring, simple past and past participle factored)

  1. (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
  2. (of a number or other mathematical object, intransitive) To be a product of other objects.

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to find all factors of a number

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Latin factor

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factor m. (plural factors)

  1. factor (integral part)

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factor m. (??? please provide the plural!, diminutive factortje)

  1. a factor, element
  2. (mathematics) factor

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[edit] Etymology

From faciō (“do, make”).

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factor (genitive factōris); m, third declension

  1. One who or which does or makes something; doer, maker, performer, perpetrator, agent, player.

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Number Singular Plural
nominative factor factōrēs
genitive factōris factōrum
dative factōrī factōribus
accusative factōrem factōrēs
ablative factōre factōribus
vocative factor factōrēs

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  • factor in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879

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[edit] Noun

factor m. (plural factores)

  1. factor
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