factor

  1. Noun.  (obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
  2. Noun.  (context, now) An agent or representative.
  3. Noun.  An integral part.
  4. Noun.  (mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
  5. Noun.  (context, root cause analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
  6. Verb.  (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
  7. Verb.  (context, of a number or other mathematical object) To be a product of other objects.

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