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单词 factor
释义

factor

/ˈfaktə /
noun
1A circumstance, fact, or influence that contributes to a result: his skill was a factor in ensuring that so much was achieved she worked fast, conscious of the time factor...
  • Similarly, family and friends of students have been considered an influential factor in choosing an agriculture major.
  • Timely administration is a key factor in achieving positive results with hyaluronidase.
  • What is the greatest factor in contributing to childhood obesity?

Synonyms

element, part, component, ingredient, strand, constituent, point, detail, item, feature, facet, aspect, characteristic, consideration, influence, circumstance, thing, determinant
1.1 Biology A gene that determines a hereditary characteristic: the Rhesus factor...
  • Homeobox genes encode transcription factors involved in many aspects of developmental processes.
  • These findings provide insights into how genomes and environmental factors interact to determine phenotypes.
  • In related studies, the genetic factors determining the conformation of curd was analyzed.
2A number or quantity that when multiplied with another produces a given number or expression: an amount that exceeds it by a factor of 1000 or more...
  • Multiply your X factor by 159 to reach a daily total of 2,067 calories a day.
  • Here, the change often seemed to be proportional to the molecular weight of the solute multiplied by a factor of two, three or four.
  • Take the maximum draw weight of the bow required and multiply this by a factor of 5.
2.1 Mathematics A number or algebraic expression by which another is exactly divisible.So what about those Fibonacci numbers with no factors (apart from 1 and itself, of course)?...
  • The fraction 10/12 can be reduced, because both the numerator and denominator have factors of 2.
  • A number that only has two factors, one and itself, is called a prime number.
3A level on a scale of measurement.You can select from the standard list of scale factors or key in your own....
  • Your weirdness factor goes off the scale of this test.
  • As expected, the sympathy factor has tilted the scales of a nation already dissatisfied with the government.
3.1(With numeral) a sunscreen of the sun protection factor specified: factor 30 sun cream...
  • The application of sunscreen with an SPF factor of 8 reduces production of vitamin D by 95%.
  • For tropical sun exposure, a protection factor of 15 or higher should be more than adequate for all day exposure.
4 Physiology Any of a number of substances in the blood, mostly identified by numerals, which are involved in coagulation. See factor VIII.These include a change in the balance between procoagulant and anticoagulant factors in the blood....
  • In hemostasis, there is a balance between procoagulant factors and natural anticoagulant proteins.
  • In recent years literature is emerging on the role of different factors of blood coagulation in arterial thrombosis.
5An agent who buys and sells goods on commission: his father was chief factor for the Hudson’s Bay Company...
  • The brassfounders' traditional use of factors and agents accounts for the maddening anonymity of the catalogues.
  • Each district was normally headed by a chief factor, who reported to the departmental governor.

Synonyms

agent, representative, deputy, middleman, intermediary, go-between;
estate manager, land agent, land steward, reeve
5.1A company that buys a manufacturer’s invoices at a discount and takes responsibility for collecting the payments due on them.Usually notice is given to the account debtor and the debts are collected directly by the factor....
  • It is the factor who then receives payment from the importer.
5.2Scottish A land agent or steward: the house became home to the estate factor...
  • The factor who manages the estate is Peter Graham from Bidwells in Inverness.
  • Within two years they were selling paintings and objets d' art, and within five years they had moved into the estate factor's house and mothballed Whittingehame.
  • Peter Ord, the factor of Balmoral Estate, said he hoped that work would start on the scheme within the next 12 months.
verb [with object]
1 Mathematics another term for factorize. last year researchers factored a number 155 digits long...
  • It meant that the resources needed to use previously known algorithms for factoring numbers of a given size could now be used to factor significantly larger numbers.
  • I don't understand how to start out factoring this algebra.
  • But if you could factor large numbers then you could break these codes.
2(Of a company) sell (its invoices) to a factor: they collected rents while he factored these forfeited estates...
  • Of considerably more importance is that Scanchem is now factoring its invoices, and thus increasing its apparent borrowing, the outstanding amounts being secured by a charge on the book debts of the company, as is normal.
  • They were however concerned that they might be factoring bogus invoices.
  • Consider factoring or invoice discounting - drawing down bank finance against your debtor balance.

Phrasal verbs

factor something in (or out)

Derivatives

factorable

adjective ...
  • It should be noted that the number of tickets in each column and row is six, a factorable number divisible by two and three as well as by six and one.

Origin

Late Middle English (meaning 'doer', also in the Scots sense 'agent'): from French facteur or Latin factor, from fact- 'done', from the verb facere.

Rhymes

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