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factor
Part of speech: NounAn agent; one who transacts business for another; one of two or more quantities ( multiplier and multiplicand) which, multiplied together, give a product; any circumstance, etc., which produces a result.
Part of speech: VerbResolve into mathematical factors.
Usage examples "factor":- 846. But the only place where you are at liberty to deliver them, if you do not deliver them to the factor in Burra, is to the store at Scalloway? - "Second Shetland Truck System Report", William Guthrie.
- Decisive factor in result is that our reply should strike correct note from point of view of public opinion, which is decisive factor in balance here. - "My Three Years in America", Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff.
- They are extremely fortunate if they have this strong factor in their favor. - "Health Through Will Power", James J. Walsh.