What is the difference between agent and factor?
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One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
One who acts for, or in the place of, another (the principal), by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent ; as, heat is a powerful agent.
(computing) In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of autonomous process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
(grammar) The participant of a situation that carries out the action in this situation, e.g. "the boy" in the sentences "The boy kicked the ball" and "The ball was kicked by the boy".
(obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
An agent or representative.
* (Christopher Marlowe)
*, II.21:
*:And let such as will number the Kings of Castile and Portugall amongst the warlike and magnanimous conquerors, seeke for some other adherent then my selfe, forsomuch as twelve hundred leagues from their idle residence they have made themselves masters of both Indias, onely by the conduct and direction of their factors , of whom it would be knowne whether they durst but goe and enjoy them in person.
* 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :
(legal)
# 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.
* (Herbert Spencer)
(mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
* 1956 , , (The City and the Stars) , p.38:
(root cause analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
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, title= (economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
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, title= (Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
(of a number or other mathematical object) To be a product of other objects.
As nouns the difference between agent and factor
is that agent is one who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor while factor is a doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.As a verb factor is
to find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).agent
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(wikipedia agent)Noun
(en noun)- Heaven made us agents , free to good or ill. --Dryden.
- I see in him [Moby Dick] outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it. That inscrutable thing is chiefly what I hate; and be the white whale agent , or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him. --Herman Melville, , ch. 36
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(wikipedia factor)Alternative forms
* factour (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled / That owes me for a hundred tun of wine.
- What does he therefore, but resolvs to give over toyling, and to find himself out som factor , to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs; som Divine of note and estimation that must be.
- the material and dynamical factors of nutrition
- The first thousand primesthe complete sequence of all those numbers that possessed no factors except themselves and unity.
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- (Sir Walter Scott)