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      factor
      noun
      One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
      (mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
      (economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
      An agent or representative; a reseller or distributor (sometimes with a private label); a consignee.
      (law) A commission agent.
      (law) A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
      (law) A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
      (Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
      (causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
      A surname.
      (obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
      verb
      (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
      (transitive) To rewrite an expression as the product of its factors.
      (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.
      Roots
      faciofact- · Latin · make, do
      Synonyms for factor
      elementncomponentndeterminantningredientndeterminativeadjgenendeterminernaspectnintegrantadjagentn
      Words related to factor
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      Where does factor come from?

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