Word Finder - factors

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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.

You will then look to see what other factors they all have in common.

Those factors went together like sulfur and a spark.

I've considered all the factors and I've made my decision.

He just needed to find the right combination of factors that would allow him to withdraw the soul from her head without killing her.

In the interpretation of these signs the two chief factors were association of ideas and association of words.

There were too many paths and factors, though all seemed to lead to one of two futures.

The cura tori or curatoli (factors) receive 40 a year, with a slight interest in the profits; the stockmen hardly earn in money and kind 13; the muleteers and underworkmen get between 5 to 8, plus firewood, bread and oil; irregular workmen have even lower wages, with a daily distribution of bread, salt and oil.

Those two traits had been important factors in her decision to marry him.

The system represents a harmonious combination of two factors, one of popular origin, the other the outcome of speculation in the schools attached to the temples of Babylonia.

The pollination, of flowers and the dispersal of seeds by various animals are biological factors; but pollination and dispersal by the wind cannot be so regarded.

But it falls short of idealism as above defined in that it recognizes only one side of the antithesis of subject and object, and so falls short of the doctrine which takes its stand on the complete correlativity of the two factors in experience.

The cenotes or underground reservoirs were the important factors in locating the ruins of northern Yucatan.

Many factors helped in the process of assimilation.

And finally, there are a series of variations, amongst which no doubt are the mutations of de Vries and the disintegrations and recombinations of the unit factors with which Mendel and his followers have worked, in which the external or environmental factor is most remote from the actual result.

Even in his " logic " Kant speaks of abstraction from all particular objects of thought rather than of a resolution of concrete thinking into thought and its " other " as separable co-operating factors in a joint product.

This is, of course, on the usual assumption that the sign of a product is changed when that of any one of its factors is changed, - which merely means that-1 is commutative with all other quantities.

In the modern theory of complex numbers this is expressed by saying that the Norm of a product is equal to the product of the norms of the factors.

Thus, when the factors 3 It will be easy to see that, instead of the last three of these, we may write the single one ijk = - 1.

For, if the directed part have the same direction as the factors, (b) shows that it will be reversed by reversing either, and therefore will recover its original direction when both are reversed.

But, if we look at the two factors in their new position by the light of (a), we see that the sign must not change.

This variety of soils, a considerable range of moderate altitudes and favourable factors of heat and moisture promote a rich diversity in agriculture.

What is the ontological relationship between these three factors?

A completer organization was retarded by two factors, the presence of the apostles and the inspiration of the prophets.

As these rules were often accepted by his successors, the praetor thus acquired an almost legislatorial power, and his edicts, thus continued, corrected and amplified from year to year, became, under the title of the "perpetual" edicts, one of the most important factors in moulding Roman law.

Should B and C be inconveniently large, they are, if possible, to be resolved into factors, and those factors (or if they are too small, multiples of them) used for the number of teeth.

Thus 12 has 6 for a factor; but 6 is not a prime, one of its factors being 2; and therefore 2 must also be a factor of 12.

And of the redheads themselves, are there factors among the clumsy ones that are different than the coordinated ones?

The explanation is to be found within Israel itself, in factors which succeeded in re-shaping existing material and in imprinting upon it a durable stamp, and these factors, as biblical tradition recognizes, are to be found in the work of the prophets.

There seems to be no relationship between the commercial value and the analysis, the arbitrary personal methods of the expert tea-taster being controlled by factors that chemistry does not appear to deal with.

But there were other factors to be considered.

The intelligent professional knowledge of the native officers, taught under British gentlemen, and the constant hard work cheerfully rendered by the fellah soldiers, were the main factors of the success achieved at Omdurman on the 2nd of September 1898.

Church and state, law and morality, commerce and art are reduced to factors in the totality of human life, from which the specialists had isolated them.

Thus, according to the canons of the ancient philosophy, justice is done to all the factors of our problem - God remains as Father, the infinitely remote and absolute source of all; as Son, the Word who is.

The country could not afford to lose the goodwill of the emperor of the French, at that time one of the most powerful factors in Europe - in July 1869 Bratianu, although immensely popular, found it necessary to resign office, and with him fell the rest of the cabinet.

But to call this the temperature of the sun's surface is a convention, which sets aside some material factors.

We have now to consider what are the necessary factors of safety, and the modes of their application.

In the first place, it is out of of the question to allow the water to rise to the vertex a Factors .

Sheep and cattle are raised extensively on ranches in the semi-arid regions, large herds of cattle are kept on lands too wet for cultivation in the western counties, and stock-raising and dairying have become important factors in the operation of many of the best farms. The acreage of wheat was 810,000 in 1909 and the crop was 16,377,000 bushels.

Hence, if a number has factors, one at least of these must be a prime.

Thus any number which is not itself a prime is the product of several factors, each of which is a prime, e.g.

These are called prime factors.

The Least Common Multiple, or L.C.M., of two numbers, is the least number of which they are both factors.

The following are the principal rules for testing whether particular numbers are factors of a given number.

The pth root of a number (§43) may, if the number is an integer, be found by expressing it in terms of its prime factors; or, if it is not an integer, by expressing it as a fraction in its lowest terms, and finding the pth roots of the numerator and of the denominator separately.

Division with a remainder has thus a certain air of unreality, which is accentuated when the division is performed by means of factors (§ 42).

If we have to divide 935 by 240, taking 12 and 20 as factors, the result will depend on the fact that, in the notation (20) (12) of § 1 7, 935=3 " 1 7 " 1 1.

If the denominator of the fraction, when it is in its lowest terms, contains any other prime factors than 2 and 5, it cannot be expressed exactly as a decimal; but after a certain point a definite series of figures will constantly recur.

Instead of being expressed as the sum of a series of terms, a number may be expressed as the product of a series of factors, which become successively more and more nearly equal to i.

The proximity of such good markets as Chicago, Cincinnati, St Louis and Louisville, in addition to the local markets, and the unusual opportunities afforded by the railways that traverse every portion of the state, have been important factors in the rapid agricultural advance which has enabled Indiana to keep pace with the newly developed states farther west.

On submitting a complex substance of this character to destructive distillation, it will be found that the yield and quality of the products will vary very considerably with the temperature existing in the retorts, with the size of the charge of coal used, with its distribution in the retort, with the length of time the distillation has been going on, and with an infinity of other factors of a more or less complex nature.