factor

1. n. One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker. Source: opted

2. n. A steward or bailiff of an estate. Source: opted

3. n. One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product. Source: opted

4. n. One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent. Source: opted

5. v. t. To resolve (a quantity) into its factors. Source: opted

6. n. anything that contributes causally to a result Source: wordnet

7. n. an abstract part of something Source: wordnet

8. n. one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer Source: wordnet

9. n. a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission Source: wordnet

10. n. any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together Source: wordnet

11. n. an independent variable in statistics Source: wordnet

12. n. (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 Source: wordnet

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