Factor

A factor can be:

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• a person acting as a mercantile agent, or, in Scotland, a Factor is a person who manages property on behalf of the owner;
• in mathematics,
• a multiplicative factor is a synonym for coefficient
• a number that is a divisor of another number; thus, factorization is to express a number as the product of two numbers.
• a von Neumann algebra with a trivial center;
• an enzyme in biochemistry;
• an abbreviation for Functionality, Application domain, Conditions, Technology, Objects, and Responsibility in the OOA&D method;
• a leader of a cell in one of the philosophical factions in the Planescape setting for Dungeons & Dragons;
• the Factor programming language, created by Slava Pestov;
• something which is believed to have an effect on a response variable in an experiment (see design of experiments).