Index of English words, starting with "fa"

(1) - Factor (v. t.) To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.
(2) - Factor (n.) One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent.
(3) - Factor (n.) One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product.
(4) - Factor (n.) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
(5) - Factor (n.) 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.

(1) - Factorial (n.) The product of the consecutive numbers from unity up to any given number.
(2) - Factorial (n.) 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.
(3) - Factorial (a.) Related to factorials.
(4) - Factorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a factory.

(1) - Factory (n.) 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.
(2) - Factory (n.) The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory.
(3) - Factory (n.) A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.

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