highest common factornoun [ C ]
uk/ˌhaɪ.ɪst kɒm.ən ˈfæk.tər/us/ˌhaɪ.ɪst kɑː.mən ˈfæk.tɚ/UK specialized abbreviation HCF, US greatest common factorthe highest number that a set of two or more different numbers can be divided by exactly:
4 is the highest common factor of 8 and 12.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Addition, subtraction, multiplication & division
- add
- add (sth) up
- addition sign
- associative property
- borrow
- carry sth forward/over
- cube
- deduct
- distributive
- divide
- divisible
- divisor
- long division
- minus
- multiplication table
- multiply
- plus
- power
- table
- times
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