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