Definition of factor

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

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Factorage :: Factorage (n.) The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission..
Commission :: Commission (n.) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See Del credere..
Consignee :: Consignee (n.) The person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor; -- correlative to consignor.
Smell :: Smell (v. i.) To affect the olfactory nerves; to have an odor or scent; -- often followed by of; as, to smell of smoke, or of musk..
Custom :: Custom (n.) Habitual buying of goods; practice of frequenting, as a shop, manufactory, etc., for making purchases or giving orders; business support..
Armory :: Armory (n.) A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords..
Satisfactory :: Satisfactory (a.) Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation..
Empty :: Empty (superl.) Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc..
Olfactive :: Olfactive (a.) See Olfactory, a..
Exponent :: Exponent (n.) A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a factor to produce the power indicated.
Manufactory :: Manufactory (n.) A building or place where anything is manufactured; a factory.
Olfactory :: Olfactory (n.) An olfactory organ; also, the sense of smell; -- usually in the plural..
Factorial :: Factorial (n.) The product of the consecutive numbers from unity up to any given number.
Satisfactory :: Satisfactory (a.) Making amends, indemnification, or recompense; causing to cease from claims and to rest content; compensating; atoning; as, to make satisfactory compensation, or a satisfactory apology..
Skip :: Skip (n.) A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories..
Panzoism :: Panzoism (n.) A term used to denote all of the elements or factors which constitute vitality or vital energy.
Emptiness :: Emptiness (n.) Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.
Factor :: 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..
Diptych :: Diptych (n.) A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints..
Smell :: Smell (v. t.) The sense or faculty by which certain qualities of bodies are perceived through the instrumentally of the olfactory nerves. See Sense.
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