Factor (Latin, ) may refer to:
Commerce
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Factor (agent), a person who acts for, notably a mercantile and colonial agent
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Factor (Scotland), a person or firm managing a Scottish estate
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Factors of production, such a factor is a resource used in the production of goods and services
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Factor, a brand of the meal-kit company HelloFresh
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Factor Bikes, a British bicycle manufacturer
Science and technology
Biology
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Coagulation factors, substances essential for blood coagulation
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Environmental factor, any abiotic or biotic factor that affects life
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Enzyme, proteins that catalyze chemical reactions
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Factor B, and factor D, peptides involved in the alternate pathway of immune system complement activation
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Transcription factor, a protein that binds to specific DNA sequences
Computer science and information technology
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Factor (programming language), a concatenative stack-oriented programming language
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Factor (Unix), a utility for factoring an integer into its prime factors
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Factor, a substring, a subsequence of consecutive symbols in a string
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Authentication factor, a piece of information used to verify a person's identity for security purposes
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Decomposition (computer science), also known as factoring, the organization of computer code
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Enumerated type: a data type consisting of a set of named values, called factor in the R programming language
Other uses in science and technology
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Factor, in the design of experiments, a phenomenon presumed to affect an experiment
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Human factors, a profession that focuses on how people interact with products, tools, or procedures
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Sun protection factor, a unit describing reduction in transmitted ultraviolet light
Mathematics
General mathematics
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Factor (arithmetic), either of two numbers involved in a multiplication
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Divisor, an integer which evenly divides a number without leaving a remainder
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Factorization, the decomposition of an object into a product of other objects
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Integer factorization, the process of breaking down a composite number into smaller non-trivial divisors
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A coefficient, a multiplicative factor in an expression, usually a number
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The act of forming a Quotient group or quotient ring in abstract algebra
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A von Neumann algebra, with a trivial center
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Factor (graph theory), a spanning sub graph
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Any finite contiguous sub-sequence of a word in combinatorics or of a word in group theory.
Statistics
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An independent categorical variable.
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In experimental design, the factor is a category of treatments controlled by the experimenter.
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In factor analysis, the factors are unobserved underlying hidden variables that explain variability in a set of correlated variables.
People
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Factor Chandelier, Canadian hip hop artist
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John Factor (1892–1984), British-American Prohibition-era gangster
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Max Factor Sr. (1872–1938), Polish-American businessman and cosmetician
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Max Factor Jr. (1904–1996), son of the above, born Francis Factor
Places
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Factor, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a barrio
Other uses
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Factor (chord), a member or component of a chord
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FACTOR, the Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Records
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The Factor, an April 2017 TV show on Fox News Channel
See also
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Co-factor (disambiguation)
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Factoring (disambiguation)
