factorizev.
/ˈfaktərʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈfæktəˌraɪz/ 1. transitive. U.S. Law. In Connecticut and Vermont: to serve notice on (a third party) for the purpose of legally seizing money belonging to a debtor or defendant; to seek to seize (money) in this way. Cf. factor n. 3c, garnish v. 9. Now rare.
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society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [verb (transitive)] > serve notice on for attaching money
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1848 Western Law Jrnl. 6 23 The provision for factorizing the debtor.
1860 Connecticut Rep. 28 104 The sheriff was factorized upon it as the agent, trustee and debtor of Boggs & Co.
1922 Connecticut Pract. Bk. 140 A public officer cannot be factorized for public money due to the defendant.
1953 Connecticut Bar Jrnl. 27 219 While it is still doubtful that a plaintiff may factorize himself in his own suit, a plaintiff husband certainly may not subject himself to garnishment in an action brought against his divorced wife by the husband himself.
1982 Federal Suppl. (U.S.) (Lexis) 538 1054 Debtor became insolvent and plaintiff, a creditor of the debtor, ‘factorized’ the $169.88 garnishee owed debtor under the first contract.
2. Mathematics.
a. transitive. To express (a quantity) as a product of factors; to ascertain the factors of.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (transitive)] > factorize
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1877 S. H. Winter Math. Exercises (new ed.) 129 Factorise the expressions, (a2 + b2)2 − 4a2b2 and x6 − y6.
1923 E. H. Chapman Elem. Algebra xiii. 103 When we attempt to factorize an algebraic expression, we regard it as a product, and try to undo the multiplication.
1967 W. P. Eames Elem. Theory Numbers iv. 117 Since f is a product of polynomials which can be factorized, f can also be factorized.
2011 M. Kaku Physics of Future iv. 193 It's easy to factorize the number 21 as the product of 3 and 7.
b. intransitive. To admit of being expressed as a product of factors.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > perform arithmetic or algebraic operations [verb (intransitive)] > factorize
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1894 Math. Gaz. Apr. 6/1 If we put y = 1 in the above expression we get 1 + (1 + x)3, which factorises as easily as (2 + x)(1 + x + x2).
1914 A. G. Cracknell School Algebra xv. 199 3y(2x + a) − b(2y + c) does not factorise.
1939 C. W. Godfrey & R. C. B. Tait School Algebra viii. 100 Quadratic equations will not always factorize.
2002 Biometrika 89 764 For any given conditional densities to be compatible, the ratio of the conditionals must factorise as the product of separate functions of x and y.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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