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Commerce

Factor (agent) A factor is a type of trader who receives and sells goods on commission, called factorage. A factor is a mercantile fiduciary transacting business that operates in their own name and does not disclose their principal. A factor differs from a c ...

, a person who acts for, notably a mercantile and colonial agent *

Factor (Scotland) In Scotland a factor (or property manager) is a person or firm charged with superintending or managing properties and estates—sometimes where the owner or landlord is unable to or uninterested in attending to such details personally, or in ten ...

, a person or firm managing a Scottish estate *

Factors of production In economics, factors of production, resources, or inputs are what is used in the production process to produce output—that is, goods and services. The utilised amounts of the various inputs determine the quantity of output according to the rela ...

, such a factor is a resource used in the production of goods and services * Factor, a brand of

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Science and technology

Biology

Coagulation factors Coagulation, also known as clotting, is the process by which blood changes from a liquid to a gel, forming a blood clot. It results in hemostasis, the cessation of blood loss from a damaged vessel, followed by repair. The process of coagulation ...

, substances essential for blood coagulation *

Environmental factor An environmental factor, ecological factor or eco factor is any factor, abiotic or biotic, that influences living organisms. Abiotic factors include ambient temperature, amount of sunlight, air, soil, water and pH of the water soil in which an ...

, any abiotic or biotic factor that affects life *

Enzyme An enzyme () is a protein that acts as a biological catalyst by accelerating chemical reactions. The molecules upon which enzymes may act are called substrate (chemistry), substrates, and the enzyme converts the substrates into different mol ...

, proteins that catalyze chemical reactions * Factor B, and factor D, peptides involved in the alternate pathway of immune system complement activation *

Transcription factor In molecular biology, a transcription factor (TF) (or sequence-specific DNA-binding factor) is a protein that controls the rate of transcription (genetics), transcription of genetics, genetic information from DNA to messenger RNA, by binding t ...

, a protein that binds to specific DNA sequences

Computer science and information technology

Factor (programming language) Factor is a stack-oriented programming language created by Slava Pestov. Factor is dynamically typed and has automatic memory management, as well as powerful metaprogramming features. The language has a single implementation featuring a self-hos ...

, a concatenative stack-oriented programming language *

Factor (Unix) On Unix, Plan 9 from Bell Labs, Plan 9, and Unix-like computer systems, factor is a utility for Factorization, factoring an integer into its prime factors. History ''factor'' first appeared on Version 5 Unix, 5th edition Research Unix in 1974, as ...

, a utility for factoring an integer into its prime factors * Factor, a

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, a subsequence of consecutive symbols in a string * Authentication factor, a piece of information used to verify a person's identity for security purposes *

Decomposition (computer science) Decomposition in computer science, also known as factoring, is breaking a complex problem or system into parts that are easier to conceive, understand, program, and maintain. Overview Different types of decomposition are defined in computer sc ...

, also known as factoring, the organization of computer code *

Enumerated type In computer programming, an enumerated type (also called enumeration, enum, or factor in the R (programming language), R programming language, a status variable in the JOVIAL programming language, and a categorical variable in statistics) is a data ...

: a data type consisting of a set of named values, called factor in the R programming language

Other uses in science and technology

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design of experiments The design of experiments (DOE), also known as experiment design or experimental design, is the design of any task that aims to describe and explain the variation of information under conditions that are hypothesized to reflect the variation. ...

, a phenomenon presumed to affect an experiment * Human factors, a profession that focuses on how people interact with products, tools, or procedures *

Sun protection factor Sunscreen, also known as sunblock, sun lotion or sun cream, is a photoprotective topical product for the skin that helps protect against sunburn and prevent skin cancer. Sunscreens come as lotions, sprays, gels, foams (such as an expanded foa ...

, a unit describing reduction in transmitted ultraviolet light

Mathematics

General mathematics

Factor (arithmetic) Multiplication is one of the four elementary mathematical operations of arithmetic, with the other ones being addition, subtraction, and division. The result of a multiplication operation is called a '' product''. Multiplication is often de ...

, either of two numbers involved in a multiplication *

Divisor In mathematics, a divisor of an integer n, also called a factor of n, is an integer m that may be multiplied by some integer to produce n. In this case, one also says that n is a '' multiple'' of m. An integer n is divisible or evenly divisibl ...

, an integer which evenly divides a number without leaving a remainder *

Factorization In mathematics, factorization (or factorisation, see American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization), English spelling differences) or factoring consists of writing a number or another mathematical object as a p ...

, the decomposition of an object into a product of other objects *

Integer factorization In mathematics, integer factorization is the decomposition of a positive integer into a product of integers. Every positive integer greater than 1 is either the product of two or more integer factors greater than 1, in which case it is a comp ...

, the process of breaking down a composite number into smaller non-trivial divisors * A

coefficient In mathematics, a coefficient is a Factor (arithmetic), multiplicative factor involved in some Summand, term of a polynomial, a series (mathematics), series, or any other type of expression (mathematics), expression. It may be a Dimensionless qu ...

, a multiplicative factor in an expression, usually a number * The act of forming a

factor group A quotient group or factor group is a mathematical group obtained by aggregating similar elements of a larger group using an equivalence relation that preserves some of the group structure (the rest of the structure is "factored out"). For exam ...

quotient ring In ring theory, a branch of abstract algebra, a quotient ring, also known as factor ring, difference ring or residue class ring, is a construction quite similar to the quotient group in group theory and to the quotient space in linear algebra. ...

in abstract algebra * A

von Neumann algebra In mathematics, a von Neumann algebra or W*-algebra is a *-algebra of bounded operators on a Hilbert space that is closed in the weak operator topology and contains the identity operator. It is a special type of C*-algebra. Von Neumann al ...

, with a trivial center * Factor (graph theory), a spanning sub graph * Any finite contiguous sub-sequence of a word in combinatorics or of a word in group theory.

Statistics

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. ** In

experimental design The design of experiments (DOE), also known as experiment design or experimental design, is the design of any task that aims to describe and explain the variation of information under conditions that are hypothesized to reflect the variation. ...

, the factor is a category of treatments controlled by the experimenter. * In

factor analysis Factor analysis is a statistical method used to describe variability among observed, correlated variables in terms of a potentially lower number of unobserved variables called factors. For example, it is possible that variations in six observe ...

, the factors are unobserved underlying ''hidden'' variables that explain variability in a set of correlated variables.

People

* Factor Chandelier, Canadian hip hop artist * John Factor (1892–1984), British-American Prohibition-era gangster * Max Factor Sr. (1872–1938), Polish-American businessman and cosmetician ** Max Factor Jr. (1904–1996), son of the above, born Francis Factor

Places

* Factor, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a barrio

Other uses

* Factor (chord), a member or component of a chord *

FACTOR Factor (Latin, ) may refer to: Commerce * Factor (agent), a person who acts for, notably a mercantile and colonial agent * Factor (Scotland), a person or firm managing a Scottish estate * Factors of production, such a factor is a resource used ...

, the Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Records * '' The Factor'', an April 2017 TV show on ''Fox News Channel'' *