Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.

An agent or representative.

* (Christopher Marlowe)

My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled / That owes me for a hundred tun of wine.

*, 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) :

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.

(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)

the material and dynamical factors of nutrition

(mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.

* 1956 , , (The City and the Stars) , p.38:

The first thousand primesthe complete sequence of all those numbers that possessed no factors except themselves and unity.

(root cause analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.

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(economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.

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(Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.

(Sir Walter Scott)

Noun

That which affects one's welfare or happiness.

*

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The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.

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A business, firm or enterprise; a company.

* 2001 November 18, " What the Muslim World Is Watching," The New York Times (retrieved 26 July 2014):

Soon after he ascended the throne, an Arabic television joint venture between the BBC and a Saudi concern , Orbit Communications, foundered over the BBC's insistence on editorial independence.

(computing, programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.

* 2006 , Awais Rashid, ?Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II (page 148)

At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern .