A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
The factor of the trading post bought the furs.
An agent or representative; a reseller or distributor (sometimes with a private label); a consignee.
My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled / That owes me for a hundred tun of wine.
A commission agent.
To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
To rewrite an expression as the product of its factors.
To be a product of other objects.
A surname.
From Middle French facteur, from Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”).
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