factor
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Is factor a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of factor?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.Examples: "The factor of the trading post bought the furs."obsolete
2. (law)
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5. (mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.Examples: "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."; "The formula adjusts for region and season by multiplying by a prescribed factor for each."
6. (causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.Examples: "The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster."; "Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies."
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).transitive
2. (transitive) To rewrite an expression as the product of its factors.transitive
3. (of a number or other mathematical object, intransitive) To be a product of other objects.intransitive
4. (commercial, transitive) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary