" factor "

[Noun]  | "fac*tor" | \ ˈfak-tər \

1: one who acts or transacts business for another: such as

2: broker

3: one that lends money to producers and dealers (as on the security of accounts receivable)

Origin: 15th century ;

 Middle English factour "doer, perpetrator, commercial agent," borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin factor "maker, creator, perpetrator" (Medieval Latin, "commercial agent, broker"), from fac-, stem of facere "to make, bring about, perform, do" + -tor, agent suffix {mat|fact|};

[Noun]  | "factor analysis" 

1: the analytical process of transforming statistical data (such as measurements) into linear combinations of usually independent variables

Origin: 1928 ;

[Noun]  | "factor VIII" | \ -ˈāt \

1: a glycoprotein clotting factor of blood plasma that is essential for blood clotting and is absent or inactive in hemophilia A —called also antihemophilic factor

Origin: 1954 ;

[Noun]  | "factor V" | \ -ˈfīv \

1: a clotting factor produced primarily in the liver that circulates in an inactive form in blood plasma and in its activated form combines with factor X on the surface of platelets to accelerate the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin

Origin: 1947 ;

[Noun]  | "factor group" 

1: quotient group

Origin: 1897 ;

[Noun]  | "factor IX" | \ -ˈnīn \

1: a clotting factor that activates factor VIII and whose deficiency is associated with hemophilia —called also Christmas factor

Origin: 1955 ;

[Noun]  | "factor X" | \ -ˈten \

1: a clotting factor that is produced primarily in the liver under the influence of vitamin K and in its activated form is a proteolytic enzyme that converts prothrombin to thrombin in a reaction dependent on calcium ions and phospholipids and accelerated by factor V

Origin: 1954 ;

[Noun]  | "an*ti*he*mo*phil*ic factor" | \ ˌan-tē-ˌhē-mə-ˈfi-lik- \

1: factor viii

Origin: 1947 ;

[Noun]  | "chill factor" 

1: windchill

Origin: 1965 ;

[Verb]  | "factor" 

1: to work as a factor

2: to resolve into factors

3: to include or admit as a factor —used with in or into

Origin: 1621 ;

 Verbal derivative of {see: |factor:1|factor:1};

[Noun]  | "factor" 

[Verb]  | "factor (in or into)" 

[Verb]  | "factor (in or into or out)" 

[Verb]  | "factor (out)"