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factors
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factor
n.
cause; agent, broker; financier, money lender; number which is multiplied with another to produce a given product (Mathematics)
v.
separate into factors (Mathematics)
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FACTOR
FACTOR (Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings) was founded in 1982 by a partnership of the private radio broadcasters CHUM Limited, Moffat Communications and Rogers Broadcasting Limited, in conjunction with the Canadian Independent Record Producers Association (CIRPA) and the Canadian Music Publishers Association (CMPA). In its early years, FACTOR had a budget of $200,000 and one mandate: to fund albums by Canadian artists that had potential for commercial radio success.
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Factor
Factor, a Latin word meaning "who/which acts", may refer to:
Commerce
- Factor (agent), a person who acts for another, notably a mercantile and colonial agent
- Factor (Scotland), a person or firm managing a Scottish estate
- Factors of production, a resource used in the production of goods and services
- Factoring (finance), an entity providing commercial finance services
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factor
Noun
1. anything that contributes causally to a result; "a number of factors determined the outcome"
(hypernym) cause
(hyponym) parameter
2. an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech"
(synonym) component, constituent, element, ingredient
(hypernym) part, section, division
(hyponym) point
(derivation) factorize, factorise
3. any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together
(hypernym) number
(hyponym) deflator
(derivation) factor in, factor out
4. one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer; "what are the 4 factors of 6?"
(synonym) divisor
(hypernym) integer, whole number
(hyponym) prime factor
(derivation) factor in, factor out
5. a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
(synonym) agent, broker
(hypernym) businessperson, bourgeois
(hyponym) auctioneer
(member-holonym) brokerage, brokerage firm, securities firm
6. an independent variable in statistics
(hypernym) independent variable, experimental variable
7. (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; "genes were formerly called factors"
(synonym) gene, cistron
(hypernym) sequence
(hyponym) dominant gene
(part-holonym) deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA
(classification) genetics, genetic science
Verb
1. resolve into factors; "a quantum computer can factor the number 15"
(synonym) factor in, factor out
(hypernym) calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure
(derivation) divisor
(classification) arithmetic
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factor (de)
n.
factor, cause
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factor
n.
činitel; faktor; dělitel
v.
počítat s čím; zahrnout co
