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Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

word meaning "who/which acts", may refer to:

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 in his own name and not disclosing his principal. A factor differs from a commission merchant i ...

, 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 tene ...

, 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 utilized amounts of the various inputs determine the quantity of output according to the relat ...

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

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 potentially results in hemostasis, the cessation of blood loss from a damaged vessel, followed by repair. The mechanism o ...

, 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, and pH of the water soil in which an organism lives. Bi ...

, any abiotic or biotic factor that affects life *

Enzyme Enzymes () are proteins that act as biological catalysts by accelerating chemical reactions. The molecules upon which enzymes may act are called substrates, and the enzyme converts the substrates into different molecules known as products. A ...

, proteins that catalyze chemical reactions *

Factor B Complement factor B is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''CFB'' gene. Function This gene encodes complement factor B, a component of the alternative pathway of complement activation. Factor B circulates in the blood as a single cha ...

, and

factor D Factor D (, ''C3 proactivator convertase'', ''properdin factor D esterase'', ''factor D (complement)'', ''complement factor D'', ''CFD'', ''adipsin'') is a protein which in humans is encoded by the ''CFD'' gene. Factor D is involved in the alterna ...

, 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 of genetic information from DNA to messenger RNA, by binding to a specific DNA sequence. The fu ...

, a protein that binds to specific DNA sequences

Computer science and information technology

* Factor (programming language), a concatenative stack-oriented programming language * Factor (Unix), a utility for factoring an integer into its prime factors * Factor, a

substring In formal language theory and computer science, a substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string. For instance, "''the best of''" is a substring of "''It was the best of times''". In contrast, "''Itwastimes''" is a subsequence ...

, a subsequence of consecutive symbols in a string *

Authentication factor Authentication (from ''authentikos'', "real, genuine", from αὐθέντης ''authentes'', "author") is the act of proving an assertion, such as the identity of a computer system user. In contrast with identification, the act of indicatin ...

, 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 There are different types of decomposition defined in comput ...

, 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, and a categorical variable in statistics) is a data type consisting of a set of named values called ''elements'', ''members'', ''en ...

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

Other uses in science and technology

* Factor, in the

design of experiments The design of experiments (DOE, DOX, 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 term is generally associ ...

, 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, a unit describing reduction in transmitted ultraviolet light

Mathematics

General mathematics

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multiplication Multiplication (often denoted by the cross symbol , by the mid-line dot operator , by juxtaposition, or, on computers, by an asterisk ) is one of the four elementary mathematical operations of arithmetic, with the other ones being additi ...

for a whole number by which a larger whole number can be divided *

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 divisible by ...

, 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 number theory, integer factorization is the decomposition of a composite number into a product of smaller integers. If these factors are further restricted to prime numbers, the process is called prime factorization. When the numbers are suf ...

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

coefficient In mathematics, a coefficient is a multiplicative factor in some term of a polynomial, a series, or an expression; it is usually a number, but may be any expression (including variables such as , and ). When the coefficients are themselves var ...

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

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 algeb ...

, with a trivial center *

Factor (graph theory) In graph theory, a factor of a graph ''G'' is a spanning subgraph, i.e., a subgraph that has the same vertex set as ''G''. A ''k''-factor of a graph is a spanning ''k''- regular subgraph, and a ''k''-factorization partitions the edges of the gr ...

, a spanning sub graph * Any finite contiguous sub sequence of a word in group theory

Statistics

* An

independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...

categorical variable In statistics, a categorical variable (also called qualitative variable) is a variable that can take on one of a limited, and usually fixed, number of possible values, assigning each individual or other unit of observation to a particular group or ...

. ** In

experimental design The design of experiments (DOE, DOX, 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 term is generally associ ...

, 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 observed ...

, the factors are unobserved underlying ''hidden'' variables that explain variability in a set of correlated variables. The factor by which a vector A Is multipled could be a scalar having its own physical dimension

People

Factor (producer) Graham Murawsky (born March 28, 1982), better known by his stage name Factor Chandelier (formerly Factor), is a Canadian underground hip hop producer from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He is a founder of Off Beat Production and Side Road Records. His ...

, 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. Francis Factor (August 18, 1904 – June 7, 1996), also known as Max Factor Jr., was an American businessman who was president of the Max Factor, Max Factor Cosmetics empire. Early life He was born Francis Factor in St. Louis, Missouri, the son o ...

(1904–1996), son of the above, born Francis Factor

Places

Factor, Arecibo, Puerto Rico Factor is a barrio in the municipality of Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 8,001. History Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an ...

, a barrio

Other uses

Factor (chord) In music, a factor or chord factor is a member or component of a chord (music), chord. These are named root (chord), root, third (chord), third, fifth (chord), fifth, sixth chord, sixth, seventh (chord), seventh, ninth (compound interval, compo ...

, a member or component of a chord *

FACTOR Factor, a Latin word meaning "who/which acts", 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, suc ...

, the Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Records