Factor

Factor (Latin, 'who/which acts') may refer to:

Commerce

• Factor (agent), a person who acts for, notably a mercantile and colonial agent
• Factor (Scotland), a person or firm managing a Scottish estate
• Factors of production, such a factor is a resource used in the production of goods and services
• Factor, a brand of HelloFresh meal-kit company

Science and technology

Biology

• Coagulation factors, substances essential for blood coagulation
• Environmental factor, any abiotic or biotic factor that affects life
• Enzyme, proteins that catalyze chemical reactions
• Factor B, and factor D, peptides involved in the alternate pathway of immune system complement activation
• Transcription factor, a protein that binds to specific DNA sequences

Computer science and information technology

• Factor (programming language), a concatenative stack-oriented programming language
• Factor (Unix), a utility for factoring an integer into its prime factors
• Factor, a substring, a subsequence of consecutive symbols in a string
• Authentication factor, a piece of information used to verify a person's identity for security purposes
• Decomposition (computer science), also known as factoring, the organization of computer code
• Enumerated type: a data type consisting of a set of named values, called factor in the R programming language

Other uses in science and technology

• Factor, in the design of experiments, a phenomenon presumed to affect an experiment
• Human factors, a profession that focuses on how people interact with products, tools, or procedures
• Sun protection factor, a unit describing reduction in transmitted ultraviolet light

Mathematics

General mathematics

• Factor (arithmetic), either of two numbers involved in a multiplication
• Divisor, an integer which evenly divides a number without leaving a remainder
• Factorization, the decomposition of an object into a product of other objects
• Integer factorization, the process of breaking down a composite number into smaller non-trivial divisors
• A coefficient, a multiplicative factor in an expression, usually a number
• The act of forming a factor group or quotient ring in abstract algebra
• A von Neumann algebra, with a trivial center
• Factor (graph theory), a spanning sub graph
• Any finite contiguous sub-sequence of a word in combinatorics or of a word in group theory.

Statistics

• An independent categorical variable.
  • In experimental design, the factor is a category of treatments controlled by the experimenter.
• In factor analysis, the factors are unobserved underlying hidden variables that explain variability in a set of correlated variables.

People

• Factor Chandelier, Canadian hip hop artist
• John Factor (1892–1984), British-American Prohibition-era gangster
• Max Factor Sr. (1872–1938), Polish-American businessman and cosmetician
  • Max Factor Jr. (1904–1996), son of the above, born Francis Factor

Places

• Factor, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, a barrio

Other uses

• Factor (chord), a member or component of a chord
• FACTOR, the Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent on Records
• The Factor, an April 2017 TV show on Fox News Channel

See also

• All pages with titles containing factor
• All pages with titles beginning with Factor
• Co-factor (disambiguation)
• Factoring (disambiguation)