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.

A steward or bailiff of an estate.

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

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

To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.

A number that divides another number exactly

(genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; "genes were formerly called factors"

an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech"

an independent variable in statistics

one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer; "what are the 4 factors of 6?"