factor
/ˈfæk.təɹ/ noun B2- An agent or representative; a reseller or distributor (sometimes with a private label); a consignee.
- A commission agent.
- A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
- A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
- One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result. · The greatest factor in the decision was the need for public transportation.· The economy was a factor in this year's budget figures.
- Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole. · 3 is a factor of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6.· The factors of the Klein four-group are both cyclic of order 2.
- Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence. · The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster.
- A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
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As it is, I have been able to get about as I could not possibly have done had I been living in the Hall, and I remain an unknown factor in the business, ready to throw in all my weight at a critical moment.”
We will suppose that a minister needs information as to a point which involves the Navy, India, Canada and the bimetallic question; he could get his separate advices from various departments upon each, but only Mycroft can focus them all, and say offhand how each factor would affect the other.
“Yes; his brother, Colonel Valentine Walter, has testified to his departure from Woolwich, and Admiral Sinclair to his arrival in London; so Sir James is no longer a direct factor in the problem.”
These were all factors which had to be taken into consideration, and yet none of them got quite to the heart of the matter.
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