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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)
- (obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
- (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.
- (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.
- 1863, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology
- the material and dynamical factors of nutrition
- 1863, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology
- (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.
- 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p.38:
- (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.
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)
- (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, 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)
- 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)
- a factor, element
- (mathematics) factor
- (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
- One who or which does or makes something; doer, maker, performer, perpetrator, agent, player.
- (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)
- 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)
- factor
- 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)
- factor
Derived terms
- factor productivo
Related terms
- hacer
factor From the web:
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component
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin comp?n?ns, comp?n?ntis, present participle of comp?n? (“assemble, put together”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /k?m?po?n?nt/
Noun
component (plural components)
- A smaller, self-contained part of a larger entity. Often refers to a manufactured object that is part of a larger device.
Derived terms
- componentless
- per-component
Translations
Adjective
component (not comparable)
- Making up a larger whole; as a component word.
- Made up of smaller complete units in combination; as a component stereo.
Catalan
Verb
component
- present participle of compondre
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English component or German Komponente, from Latin comp?n?ns, present participle of comp?n? (“assemble, put together”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?m.po??n?nt/
- Hyphenation: com?po?nent
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
component m (plural componenten, diminutive componentje n)
- component
Synonyms
- onderdeel
Derived terms
- tweecomponentenlijm
Related terms
- componeren
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: komponen
Latin
Verb
component
- third-person plural future active indicative of compon?
Romanian
Alternative forms
- (component): component?
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian componente, German Komponente, from Latin comp?n?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kom.po?nent/
Noun
component n (plural componente)
- component
Declension
Noun
component m (plural componen?i, feminine equivalent component?)
- member of a team or other group
Declension
Adjective
component m or n (feminine singular component?, masculine plural componen?i, feminine and neuter plural componente)
- component
Declension
component From the web:
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- what components of blood can be examined
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