Factor (noun)
A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
“The factor of the trading post bought the furs.”
Factor (noun)
An agent or representative.
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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.”
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.”
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.”
Factor (noun)
A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
Factor (noun)
A steward or bailiff of an estate.
Factor (verb)
To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
Factor (verb)
To be a product of other objects.
Factor (verb)
To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
Aspect (noun)
Any specific feature, part, or element of something.
Aspect (noun)
The way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective.
Aspect (noun)
The way something appears when considered from a certain point of view.
Aspect (noun)
A phase or a partial, but significant view or description of something.
Aspect (noun)
One’s appearance or expression. from 16th c.
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.”
Aspect (noun)
Prospect; outlook.
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.
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.
Aspect (noun)
The act of looking at something; gaze. 14th-19th c.
Aspect (noun)
Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
Aspect (noun)
In aspect-oriented programming, a feature or component that can be applied to parts of a program independent of any inheritance hierarchy.
Aspect (verb)
To channel a divine being.
Aspect (verb)
To look at.
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”
Factor (noun)
a gene that determines a hereditary characteristic
“the Rhesus factor”
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”
Factor (noun)
a number or algebraic expression by which another is exactly divisible.
Factor (noun)
a level on a scale of measurement.
Factor (noun)
(with numeral) a sunscreen of the sun protection factor specified
“factor 30 sun cream”
Factor (noun)
any of a number of substances in the blood, mostly identified by numerals, which are involved in coagulation.
Factor (noun)
an agent who buys and sells goods on commission
“his father was chief factor for the Hudson’s Bay Company”
Factor (noun)
a company that buys a manufacturer’s invoices at a discount and takes responsibility for collecting the payments due on them.
Factor (noun)
a land agent or steward
“the house became home to the estate factor”
Factor (noun)
an agent, deputy, or representative.
Factor (verb)
another term for factorize
“last year researchers factored a number 155 digits long”
Factor (verb)
(of a company) sell (its invoices) to a factor
“they collected rents while he factored these forfeited estates”
Aspect (noun)
a particular part or feature of something
“the financial aspect can be overstressed”
“personal effectiveness in all aspects of life”
Aspect (noun)
a particular way in which something may be considered
“from every aspect theirs was a changing world”
Aspect (noun)
a particular appearance or quality
“a man of decidedly foreign aspect”
“the air of desertion lent the place a sinister aspect”
Aspect (noun)
the positioning of a building or other structure in a particular direction
“a greenhouse with a southern aspect”
Aspect (noun)
the side of a building facing a particular direction
“the front aspect of the hotel was unremarkable”
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”
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”
Aspect (verb)
(of a planet) form an aspect with (another celestial body)
“the sun is superbly aspected by your ruler Mars on the 19th”