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What does factor mean?

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Noun
  1. (obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
  2. (now rare) An agent or representative.
  3. (law)
    1. A commission agent.
    2. A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
    3. A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
  4. One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
  5. (mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
  6. (root cause analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
  7. (economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
  8. (Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
  2. (of a number or other mathematical object, intransitive) To be a product of other objects.
  3. (commercial, transitive) To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
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