Word Finder - factor

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A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.

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The factor of the trading post bought the furs.

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An agent or representative.

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A commission agent.

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A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.

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A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.

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One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.

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The economy was a factor in this year's budget figures.

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Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.

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3 is a factor of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6.

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(causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.

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The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster.

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A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.

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A steward or bailiff of an estate.

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To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).

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(of a number or other mathematical object) To be a product of other objects.

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(commercial) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.

The other factor was that he was doing what he had always dreamed of doing.

Another factor was caffeine.

This equation does not give us the value of the unknown factor but gives us a ratio between two unknowns.

She didn't factor her transition into a human, either.

Persia has assumed a comprehensible position as a factor in future Eastern politics.

Pete was going to be the deciding factor, and all eyes turned to him.

Only then, expressing known historic facts by equations and comparing the relative significance of this factor, can we hope to define the unknown.

Turning to the non-material external agents, probably no factor, are more responsible for ill-health in plants than temperature anc light.

The speed at which the journey has to be completed is obviously another important factor, though the increased power of modern locomotives permits trains to be heavier and at the same time to run as fast, and often faster, than was formerly possible, and in consequence the general tendency is towards increased weight as well as increased speed.

In practice, the load factor for electric crane motors varies from 3 to s.

A new factor now became apparent in Cretan politics.

But in the prodigious number of supporting discoveries that have been made no single negative factor has appeared, and the evolution from their predecessors of the forms of life existing now or at any other period must be taken as proved.

A major factor is my mood at the time of watching such images.

Its ready accessibility from the metropolis is the chief factor in its popularity.

The result of his discovery was an entire revolution in the knowledge of diseases of the chest; but it would be a mistake to forget that an essential factor in this revolution was the simultaneous study of the condition of the diseased organs as seen after death.

A new Islam is also a factor of the situation.

Casimir was to be a leading factor in this combination, and he took advantage of it to procure the election of his son Wladislaus as king of Bohemia.

However, the large increase in their equity is often the biggest determining factor.

The wow factor produced by Osborne's lighting was incredible.

His influence was an undoubted factor in the Kruger policy of that time.

The disassociation from his local origin involved in this doctrine of the triad gave to Bel a rank independent of political changes, and we, accordingly, find Bel as a factor in the religion of Babylonia and Assyria to the latest days.

It is, however, probable that conduction is to some extent a factor in the process.

If a number is a factor of another number, it is a factor of any multiple of that number.

The main factor involved in causing the encephalopathy is an increase in ammonia levels in the brain.

At term, hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy remains the most common underlying factor.

Laughter releases endorphins, the chemical in our brains that gives us the ' feel good factor ' .

Getting everyone to realize that every single data error potentially sends people on a fools errand is a critical success factor.

The first of these is difficult to judge and must be left as a possible confounding factor.

Nitrogen oxides are therefore a contributory factor in the production of acid rain.

Of course the most important factor for many of us is the cost.

A key factor in the process is the needs of the end user, in this case the food company.

The cost of energy of marine renewables is a critical factor to their success.

It is thought that the growth factor speeds up the movement of cells into the wounds.

The interior noise level is another major factor toward inducing fatigue.

Increasing levels of leisure activity were inversely associated with D-dimer, von Willebrand factor, nephelometric fibrinogen, and viscosity.

My group has recently identified IL-6, which is produced by synovial fibroblasts, as a major anti-apoptotic factor in the rheumatoid joint.

Collaborators We are specifically interested in the role of Gli3 zinc finger transcription factor during patterning of the cerebral cortex.

One factor in easyMobile's favor is the Group's well-known, well-respected and very distinct brand, pioneered by charismatic founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou.

Chocolate Falls UK Based in East Lothian Area Served Scotland Our chocolate fondue fountain will always provide the wow factor at any event.

One major factor scientists have clearly overlooked in this Bristol-based foursome 's case is the ability to harness the power of the riff.

Descriptive analyzes to examine the frequency distribution, chi-square test and factor analysis were applied using SPSS.

For wings with full-span leading-edge devices a factor, dependent on planform geometry, is applied to allow for three-dimensional effects.

A dock-side crane unloading cargo with high lifts following one another in rapid succession will require a higher load factor than a workshop traveller with a very short lift and only a very occasional maximum load; and a traveller with a very long longitudinal travel will require a higher load factor for the travelling motor than for the lifting motor.

It has been shown that unsuitable footwear is often a factor in falls.

Chemical action has frequently been suggested as being a necessary factor in the luminosity of flame, not only in the sense that it causes a sufficient rise of temperature but as furnishing some special and peculiar though undefined stimulus.

The facts, as quoted, point to the closeness of the packing of molecules as the factor which always accompanies and perhaps causes the widening of lines.

We have now reduced the law for the bands to a form which we have found applicable to a series of lines, but with this important difference that while a in the case of line spectra is a small corrective term, it now forms the constant on which an essential factor in the appearance of the band depends.

Of course, such travellers are not peculiar to the cotton trade, but cotton goods in various forms are an important factor in the home trade.

The decisive factor in the separation of Silesia from Poland was furnished by a partition of the Polish crown's territories in 1138.

For most experimental purposes the small terms involving the factor (- p') may be neglected, and we have, approximately, PoV'=Rt log (ply).