Usually means: Element that contributes to outcome.
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We found 62 dictionaries that define the word factor:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. factor: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. factor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. factor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. factor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. factor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Factor, factor: Wordnik
  7. factor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Factor, factor: Wiktionary
  9. factor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. factor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. factor: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. factor: Dictionary.com
  13. factor (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. factor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. FACTOR, Factor (Scotland), Factor (Unix), Factor (agent), Factor (chord), Factor (disambiguation), Factor (finance), Factor (programming language), Factor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Factor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. factor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. factor: Rhymezone
  19. factor, factor, factor (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. factor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. factor: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. factor: Free Dictionary
  23. factor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. factor: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. factor: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Factor: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. factor: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. factor: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. Factor: Investopedia
  10. factor: Legal dictionary
  11. Factor: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. factor: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. factor: CCI Computer
  3. factor: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  4. Factor (functional analysis), factor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. factor: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. FACTOR, FACTOR, FACTOR: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. FACTOR: Acronym Finder
  3. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  4. factor: Idioms

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. Factor: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. factor, factor: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. factor: Prime
  5. Factor: Physic and Astronomy Glossary
  6. Statistics (No longer online)
  7. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. factor: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. factor: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See factorable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
noun:  An agent or representative.
noun:  (law)
noun:  A commission agent.
noun:  A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
noun:  A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
noun:  One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
noun:  (mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
noun:  (causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
noun:  (economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
noun:  (Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
verb:  (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
verb:  (of a number or other mathematical object, intransitive) To be a product of other objects.
verb:  (commercial, transitive) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
noun:  A surname.

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