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device

English

Etymology

From Old French devis, from Latin divisus, past participle of dividere (to divide)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d??va?s/
  • Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

device (plural devices)

  1. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
    • 1949. Geneva Convention on Road Traffic Chapter VI. Provisions Applicable to Cycles in International Traffic
      Every cycle shall be equipped with: [...] (b) an audible warning device consisting of a bell [...]
  2. (computer hardware) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
  3. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
    • His device is against Babylon, to destroy it.
    • He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
    • 1827 Hallam, Henry, The English Constitution, Harper
      Their recent device of demanding benevolences.
  4. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
    • 1979 Stiff Little Fingers, "Suspect Device":
      Inflammable material is planted in my head / It's a suspect device that's left 2000 dead
    • 2014 September 3, Cliodhna Russell, The Journal "A viable device was found in Cavan today, it has now been made safe"
      THE ARMY BOMB Disposal Team rendered safe a viable device in Cavan this afternoon.
    • 2014 August 3, Louise Kelly & Conor Feehan "Suspect device found at shopping centre revealed as hoax" Irish Independent
      The army bomb squad carried out two controlled explosions on the device. It was later found that the suspect device was a hoax and not a viable explosive.
  5. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
  6. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily because as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
    • 1736. O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey. The Documentary History of the State of New York Chapter I, Article III: Enumeration of the Indian Tribes.
      The devices of these savages are the serpent, the Deer, and the Small Acorn.
  7. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
    • 1824. Landor, Walter Savage "King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage" from Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, page 44
      Moreover I must have instruments of mine own device, weighty, and exceeding costly
    • 1976. The Eagles, "Hotel California"
      And she said,
      "We are all prisoners here,
      Of our own device"
  8. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
  9. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
    • 1943 United States Post Office Department. A Description of United States Postage Stamps / Issued by the Post Office Department from July 1, 1847, to April 1, 1945 [sic], USGPO, Washington, p1:
      Prior to the issuance of the first stamps, letters accepted by postmasters for dispatch were marked "Paid" by means of pen and ink or hand stamps of various designs. [...] To facilitate the handling of mail matter, some postmasters provided special stamps or devices for use on letters as evidence of the prepayment of postage.
  10. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
  11. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

Synonyms

  • (piece of equipment): apparatus, appliance, equipment, gadget, design, contrivance
  • (project or scheme): scheme, project, stratagem, artifice
  • (obsolete, power of devising): invention, contrivance

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations


Slovene

Noun

device

  1. genitive singular of devica
  2. nominative plural of devica
  3. accusative plural of devica

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factor

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 faci? (do, make).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?fækt?/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?fækt?/
  • Hyphenation: fact?or
  • Rhymes: -ækt?(?)

Noun

factor (plural factors)

  1. (obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
  2. (now rare) An agent or representative.
    My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled / That owes me for a hundred tun of wine.
    • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
      What does he therefore, but resolvs to give over toyling, and to find himself out som factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs; som Divine of note and estimation that must be.
    • 1985 Haynes Owners Workshop Manual, BMW
      Motor factors — Good factors will stock all of the more important components which wear out relatively quickly.
  3. (law)
    1. A commission agent.
    2. A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
    3. A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
  4. One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
    • 1863, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology
      the material and dynamical factors of nutrition
  5. (mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
    • 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p.38:
      The first thousand primes [] marched in order before him [] the complete sequence of all those numbers that possessed no factors except themselves and unity.
  6. (causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
  7. (economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
  8. (Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

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

Verb

factor (third-person singular simple present factors, present participle factoring, simple past and past participle factored)

  1. (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
  2. (of a number or other mathematical object, intransitive) To be a product of other objects.
  3. (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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • factor in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin factor.

Noun

factor m (plural factors)

  1. 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 faci? (do, make).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?f?k.t?r/
  • Hyphenation: fac?tor

Noun

factor m (plural factoren, diminutive factortje n)

  1. a factor, element
  2. (mathematics) factor
  3. (obsolete) business representative

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: faktor
  • ? West Frisian: faktor

Latin

Etymology

From faci? (to do, make) +? -tor (masculine agent noun suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /?fak.tor/, [?fäkt??r]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?fak.tor/, [?f?kt??r]

Noun

factor m (genitive fact?ris); third declension

  1. One who or which does or makes something; doer, maker, performer, perpetrator, agent, player.
  2. (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, 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)

  1. Superseded spelling of fator. (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

Romanian

Etymology

From French facteur

Noun

factor m (plural factori)

  1. factor
  2. postal worker, postman, mailman

Declension


Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin factor. Compare the inherited doublet hechor (cf. malhechor).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fa??to?/, [fa???t?o?]
  • Rhymes: -o?

Noun

factor m (plural factores)

  1. factor

Derived terms

  • factor productivo

Related terms

  • hacer

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