fact

1. (databases) An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.countableuncountable

2. (archaic) Action; the realm of action.Examples: "After that Richard, the third of that name, king in fact only, but tyrant both in title and regiment[…]was[…]overthrown and slain at Bosworth Field; there succeeded in the kingdom[…]Henry the Seventh."archaiccountableuncountable

3. (law, obsolete except in set phrases) A wrongful or criminal deed.Examples: "He had become an accessory after the fact."; "She was empassiond at that piteous act, / With zelous enuy of Greekes cruell fact, / Against that nation [...]."; "His friends still wrought Repreeves for him: And indeed his fact till now in the government of Lord Angelo, came not to an undoubtfull proofe."countableuncountable

4. (obsolete) A feat or meritorious deed.Examples: "UUho when he ſhal embrace you in his arms UUil tell how many thouſand men he ſlew. And when you looke for amorous diſcourſe, Will rattle foorth his facts of war and blood: Too harſh a ſubiect for your daintie eares."; "When he who most excels in fact of arms,"countableobsoleteuncountable