Definitions for factors

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factors fac·tor

Spelling: [fak-ter]

IPA: /ˈfæk tər/

Factors is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 273 anagrams from letters in factors (acforst).

Definitions for factors

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.

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 factors

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

Examples for factors

factors that once worked against him, like his Sasquatch-esque hairstyle, are now a positive.

These factors, taken together, make up the phenomenon of Thomas Bewick.

The oddest of all perhaps is the fate of the two factors in practical politics.

It is necessary to carefully study the factors which produce these figures.

There were two factors that chiefly influenced her decision.

A comprehensive rehabilitation approach takes into account all these factors.

What factors correlate with acceptance of sexual diversity?

(b) What factors should be considered in the selection of cereals?

Two factors made Hiram Revels especially interesting to the Washington establishment.

It is simply that we have failed to understand and examine the factors that are putting young gay men at risk.