Factor () One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker.

Factor () A steward or bailiff of an estate.

Factor () One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product.

Factor () One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent.

Factored () of Factor

Factoring () of Factor

Factor () To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.

Factorage () The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.

Factoress () A factor who is a woman.

Factorial () Of or pertaining to a factory.

Factorial () Related to factorials.

Factorial () A name given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials.

Factorial () The product of the consecutive numbers from unity up to any given number.

Factoring () The act of resolving into factors.

Factorized () of Factorize

Factorizing () of Factorize

Factorize () To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff.

Factorize () To attach (the effects of a debtor) in the hands of a third person ; to garnish. See Garnish.

Factorship () The business of a factor.

Factories () of Factory

Factory () A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.

Factory () The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory.

Factory () A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory.

Factotums () of Factotum

Factotum () A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.

Factual () Relating to, or containing, facts.

Facta () of Factum

Factum () A man's own act and deed

Factum () Anything stated and made certain.

Factum () The due execution of a will, including everything necessary to its validity.

Factum () The product. See Facient, 2.

Facture () The act or manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production.

Facture () An invoice or bill of parcels.

Faculae () Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere.

Facular () Of or pertaining to the faculae.

Faculties () of Faculty

Faculty () Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.

Faculty () Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.

Faculty () Power; prerogative or attribute of office.

Faculty () Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.

Faculty () A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect.

Faculty () The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.

Facund () Eloquent.

Facundious () Eloquement; full of words.

Facundity () Eloquence; readiness of speech.

Fad () A hobby ; freak; whim.

Faddle () To trifle; to toy.

Faddle () To fondle; to dandle.

Fade () Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.

Faded () of Fade

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