English Online Dictionary. What means factor? What does factor mean?
English
Alternative forms
- factour (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle French facteur, from Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfæk.tə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfæk.tɚ/
- Hyphenation: fact‧or
- Rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
Noun
factor (plural factors)
- (obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
- An agent or representative.
- (law)
- A commission agent.
- A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
- A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
- One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
- 1864-1898, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology
- 1864-1898, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology
- (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.
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Other terms used in arithmetic operations:
Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation
Verb
factor (third-person singular simple present factors, present participle factoring, simple past and past participle factored)
- (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
- (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.
Derived terms
- factor in
- factor out
- refactor
Translations
See also
- addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) × (summand) = (sum, total)
- subtraction: (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
- multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
- division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend
Further reading
- “factor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “factor”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin factor.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /fəkˈto/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /fakˈtoɾ/
Noun
factor m (plural factors)
- factor (integral part)
Further reading
- “factor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch factoor, from Middle French facteur, from Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɑk.tɔr/
- Hyphenation: fac‧tor
Noun
factor m (plural factoren, diminutive factortje n)
- a factor, element
- (mathematics) factor
- (obsolete) business representative
Descendants
- Afrikaans: faktor
- → Indonesian: faktor
- → West Frisian: faktor
Latin
Etymology
From faciō (“to do, make”) + -tor (masculine agent noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfak.tor/, [ˈfäkt̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfak.tor/, [ˈfäkt̪or]
Noun
factor m (genitive factōris); third declension
- One who or which does or makes something; doer, maker, performer, perpetrator, agent, player.
- Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipoténtem, factórem cæli et terræ ― I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of Heaven and earth.
- (sports) player, batsman
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Related terms
- factus
- factura
Descendants
References
- “factor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- factor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- factor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “factor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “factor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese
Noun
factor m (plural factores)
- Superseded spelling of fator. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect.)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French facteur.
Noun
factor m (plural factori)
- factor
- postal worker, postman, mailman
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin factor. Compare the inherited doublet hechor (cf. malhechor).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /faɡˈtoɾ/ [faɣ̞ˈt̪oɾ]
- Rhymes: -oɾ
- Syllabification: fac‧tor
Noun
factor m (plural factores)
- factor
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “factor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014