What is the difference between faction and factor?
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A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.
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Strife; discord.
* 1805 , Johann Georg Cleminius, Englisches Lesebuch für Kaufleute ,
* 2001 , Odd Magne Bakke, "Concord and Peace": A Rhetorical Analysis of the First Letter of Clement With an Emphasis on the Language of Unity and Sedition , publ. Mohr Siebeck, ISBN 3161476379,
A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction
(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.
Factor is a related term of faction.
As nouns the difference between faction and factor
is that faction is a group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group 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).faction
English
(wikipedia faction)Etymology 1
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(en noun)pg. 188:
- Publick [sic] affairs soon fell into the utmost confusion, and in this state of faction and perplexity, the island continued, until its re-capture by the French in 1779.
pg. 89:
- He asks the audience if they believe that they will be more loved by the gods if the city is in a state of faction than if they govern the city with good order and concord.
Derived terms
* factional * factionalizeSee also
* splinter groupEtymology 2
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(en noun)See also
* (Non-fiction novel) ----factor
English
(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)