Definitions for Factor

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Factor fac·tor

Spelling: [fak-ter]

IPA: /ˈfæk tər/

Factor is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in Factor (acfort).

Definitions for Factor

noun

1. one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation:
2. Mathematics. one of two or more numbers, algebraic expressions, or the like, that when multiplied together produce a given product; a divisor:
3. Biochemistry. any of certain substances necessary to a biochemical or physiological process, especially those whose exact nature and function are unknown.
4. a business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
5. a person who acts or transacts business for another; an agent.
6. an agent entrusted with the possession of goods to be sold in the agent's name; a merchant earning a commission by selling goods belonging to others.
7. a person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
8. factor of production.
9. Scot. the steward or bailiff of an estate.
10. antihemophilic factor.
11. Christmas factor.

Verb phrases

1. factor in/into, to include as an essential element, especially in forecasting or planning:

verb (used with object)

1. Mathematics. to express (a mathematical quantity) as a product of two or more quantities of like kind, as 30 = 2·3·5, or x 2 − y 2 = (x + y) (x − y). Compare expand (def 4a).
2. to act as a factor for.

verb (used without object)

1. to act as a factor.

Origin of Factor

1400-50; late Middle English facto(u)r Latin factor maker, perpetrator, equivalent to fac(ere) to make, do + -tor -tor

Examples for Factor

It was warm and comfortable, and he was playing cribbage with the factor.

And this brings me to an important factor in the case: the factor of evolution.

Therefore in our view we need to talk about our wood management before any other factor in the maturation of The Macallan.

The other factor depended on the vexed question of means of communication.

All of these may factor into the inability to move the needle on the scale.

But hold on: factor in the runoffs, and things get weird real fast.

The ability to do that, more than anything else, may just be the true “Francis factor.”

After plane loads of wheat seeds were sent to India in the 1960s, farmers there were able to boost production by a factor of four.

Time is, therefore, not a factor in the mutation of species.

It exists, and goes forward, becoming a factor in the thought-life of our time.