- factor - anything that contributes causally to a result; "a number of factors determined the outcome"
--1 is a kind of cause
--1 has particulars:parameter; unknown quantity; wild card; releasing factor, releasing hormone, RF; intrinsic factor - component, constituent, element, factor, ingredient - an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech"
--2 is a kind of part, section, division
--2 has particulars: point; be-all and end-all, be all and end allDerived form: verb factorize1 - factor - any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together
--3 is a kind of number
--3 has particulars:deflator; conversion factor; factor of proportionality, constant of proportionality Derived forms: verb factor1, verb factorize1 - divisor, factor - one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer; "what are the 4 factors of 6?"
--4 is a kind of integer, whole number
--4 has particulars:prime factor; equivalent-binary-digit factor; common divisor, common factor, common measure Derived forms: verb factor1, verb factorize1 - agent, factor, broker - a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
--5 is a kind of businessperson, bourgeois
--5 is a member of brokerage, brokerage firm, securities firm
--5 has particulars:- factor - an independent variable in statistics
--6 is a kind of independent variable, experimental variable
- gene, cistron, factor - (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; "genes were formerly called factors"
--7 is a kind of sequence
--7 is a part of deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA; chromosome
--7 has particulars: - component, constituent, element, factor, ingredient - an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech"
- factor, factor in, factor out - resolve into factors; "a quantum computer can factor the number 15"
--1 is one way to calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun factor4, noun factor3, noun factorization1, noun factorisation1, noun factoring1
Somebody ----s something