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Factor (noun)
A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
“The factor of the trading post bought the furs.”
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Factor (noun)
An agent or representative.
“w|Christopher Marlowe”
“1985 Haynes Owners Workshop Manual, BMW”
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Factor (noun)
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.”
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Factor (noun)
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.”
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Factor (noun)
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.”
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Factor (noun)
A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
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Factor (noun)
A steward or bailiff of an estate.
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Factor (verb)
To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
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Factor (verb)
To be a product of other objects.
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Factor (verb)
To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
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Aspect (noun)
Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
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Aspect (noun)
The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
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Aspect (noun)
The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
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Aspect (noun)
A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.
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Aspect (noun)
One’s appearance or expression. from 16th c.
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Aspect (noun)
Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass.
“The house has a southern aspect, i.e. a position which faces the south.”
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Aspect (noun)
Prospect; outlook.
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Aspect (noun)
A grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding. from 19th c.
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Aspect (noun)
The relative position of heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on earth; the angular relationship between points in a horoscope. from 14th c.
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Aspect (noun)
The act of looking at something; gaze. 14th-19th c.
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Aspect (noun)
Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
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Aspect (noun)
In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
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Aspect (verb)
To channel a divine being.
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Aspect (verb)
To look at.
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Factor (noun)
a circumstance, fact, or influence that contributes to a result
“his skill was a factor in ensuring that so much was achieved”
“she worked fast, conscious of the time factor”
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Factor (noun)
a gene that determines a hereditary characteristic
“the Rhesus factor”
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Factor (noun)
a number or quantity that when multiplied with another produces a given number or expression
“an amount that exceeds it by a factor of 1000 or more”
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Factor (noun)
a number or algebraic expression by which another is exactly divisible.
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Factor (noun)
a level on a scale of measurement.
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Factor (noun)
(with numeral) a sunscreen of the sun protection factor specified
“factor 30 sun cream”
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Factor (noun)
any of a number of substances in the blood, mostly identified by numerals, which are involved in coagulation.
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Factor (noun)
an agent who buys and sells goods on commission
“his father was chief factor for the Hudson’s Bay Company”
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Factor (noun)
a company that buys a manufacturer’s invoices at a discount and takes responsibility for collecting the payments due on them.
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Factor (noun)
a land agent or steward
“the house became home to the estate factor”
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Factor (noun)
an agent, deputy, or representative.
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Factor (verb)
another term for factorize
“last year researchers factored a number 155 digits long”
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Factor (verb)
(of a company) sell (its invoices) to a factor
“they collected rents while he factored these forfeited estates”
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Aspect (noun)
a particular part or feature of something
“the financial aspect can be overstressed”
“personal effectiveness in all aspects of life”
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Aspect (noun)
a particular way in which something may be considered
“from every aspect theirs was a changing world”
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Aspect (noun)
a particular appearance or quality
“a man of decidedly foreign aspect”
“the air of desertion lent the place a sinister aspect”
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Aspect (noun)
the positioning of a building or other structure in a particular direction
“a greenhouse with a southern aspect”
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Aspect (noun)
the side of a building facing a particular direction
“the front aspect of the hotel was unremarkable”
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Aspect (noun)
any of a number of particular angular relationships between one celestial body or point on the ecliptic and another
“the sun in Aries formed an adverse aspect with Uranus in Capricorn”
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Aspect (noun)
a category or form which expresses the way in which time is denoted by a verb
“four verbal aspects”
“the semantics of tense and aspect”
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Aspect (verb)
(of a planet) form an aspect with (another celestial body)
“the sun is superbly aspected by your ruler Mars on the 19th”