Meaning

10 senses
  1. An agent or representative; a reseller or distributor (sometimes with a private label); a consignee.

  2. A commission agent.

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

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

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

    The greatest factor in the decision was the need for public transportation.

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

  6. Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.

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

    The factors of the Klein four-group are both cyclic of order 2.

    Faktor, Faktor

    мно́жительmnóžitelʹ, коэффицие́нтkoefficiént, показа́тельpokazátelʹ

    мно́жникmnóžnyk, коефіціє́нтkoeficijént, чи́нникčýnnyk

    any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together

  7. Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.

    The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster.

    Faktor

    причи́наpričína, факторfaktor

    чи́нникčýnnyk, фа́кторfáktor

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

  9. (Scotland)A steward or bailiff of an estate.

  10. (obsolete)A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.

    The factor of the trading post bought the furs.

    Agent, Makler, Kommissionär

    комиссионе́рkomissionér, фа́кторfáktor, аге́нтagént

    a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission

Examples

182 sentences
  1. There are many factors.

    Є багато факторів.

    ruЕсть много факторов.

    deEs gibt viele Faktoren.

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  2. I don't think that's a factor.

    ruНе думаю, что это играет роль.

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  3. There are several factors to consider.

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  4. There are many factors to consider.

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  5. There are other factors to consider.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
mathematical sense:
integral part:
Русский
By meaning 4
doer, maker:
mathematical sense:
integral part:
influence:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
doer, maker:
mathematical sense:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English factour, from Middle French facteur, Anglo-Norman factour, a

Inherited from Middle English factour, from Middle French facteur, Anglo-Norman factour, and their etymon Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”).

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Forms

plural: factors

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission:agentbroker
  • one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer:divisor
  • (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity:genecistron
  • an abstract part of something:componentconstituentelementingredient

Word family

96 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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