How to pronounce “factor”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
• An agent or representative; a reseller or distributor (sometimes with a private label); a consignee.
• (law)
• One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
• (mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
• (causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
• (economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
• (Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
• (transitive) To rewrite an expression as the product of its factors.
• (of a number or other mathematical object, intransitive) To be a product of other objects.
• (commercial, transitive) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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