Factor vs. Product — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Factor and Product
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Factor
A circumstance, fact, or influence that contributes to a result
His skill was a factor in ensuring that so much was achieved
She worked fast, conscious of the time factor
Product
An item that is made or refined and marketed
Farm products.
Soaps, detergents, and similar products.
Travel products such as vacation trips.
Factor
A number or quantity that when multiplied with another produces a given number or expression
An amount that exceeds it by a factor of 1000 or more
Product
Such items considered as a group
Sold a lot of product in May.
Factor
A level on a scale of measurement.
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Product
A preparation, such as a gel, used for styling hair
Began to use product soon after he became famous.
Factor
Any of a number of substances in the blood, mostly identified by numerals, which are involved in coagulation.
Product
A substance resulting from a chemical or nuclear reaction.
Factor
An agent who buys and sells goods on commission
His father was chief factor for the Hudson's Bay Company
Product
A direct result; a consequence
"Is history the product of impersonal social and economic forces?" (Anthony Lewis).
Factor
Another term for factorize
Last year researchers factored a number 155 digits long
Product
A person whose characteristics or abilities are the result of certain influences or kinds of experience
"She is the product of an America in which explicit displays of pride in intellect are considered unseemly" (Yuval Levin).
Factor
(of a company) sell (its invoices) to a factor
They collected rents while he factored these forfeited estates
Product
The number or quantity obtained by multiplying two or more numbers together.
Factor
One that actively contributes to an accomplishment, result, or process
"Surprise is the greatest factor in war" (Tom Clancy).
Product
A scalar product.
Factor
One who acts for someone else; an agent.
Product
A vector product.
Factor
One who purchases accounts receivable at a discount.
Product
Anything that is produced; a result.
The product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
Factor
(Mathematics) One of two or more quantities that divides a given quantity without a remainder. For example, 2 and 3 are factors of 6; a and b are factors of ab.
Product
The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
They improve their product every year; they export most of their agricultural production.
Factor
A quantity by which a stated quantity is multiplied or divided, so as to indicate an increase or decrease in a measurement
The rate increased by a factor of ten.
Product
A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.
Skill is the product of hours of practice.
His reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue.
Factor
A gene. No longer in technical usage.
Product
(chemistry) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
This is a product of lime and nitric acid.
Factor
(Physiology) A substance that functions in a specific biochemical reaction or bodily process, such as blood coagulation.
Product
(arithmetic) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.
The product of 2 and 3 is 6.
The product of 2, 3, and 4 is 24.
Factor
To determine or indicate explicitly the factors of
If you factor 70, you get 2, 5, and 7.
Product
(mathematics) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product.
Factor
To engage in purchasing accounts receivable at a discount.
Product
Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.
Factor
(obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
The factor of the trading post bought the furs.
Product
A commodity offered for sale.
That store offers a variety of products.
We've got to sell a lot of product by the end of the month.
Factor
An agent or representative.
Product
Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
Wash excess product out of your hair.
Factor
(legal)
Product
Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.
I got some product here – you buying?
Factor
A commission agent.
Product
To produce.
Factor
A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
Product
Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain.
There are the productOf those ill-mated marriages.
These institutions are the products of enthusiasm.
Factor
A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
Product
The number or sum obtained by adding one number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35. In general, the result of any kind of multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.
Factor
One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
The greatest factor in the decision was the need for public transportation.
The economy was a factor in this year's budget figures.
Product
To produce; to bring forward.
Factor
(mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
3 is a factor of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6.
The factors of the Klein four-group are both cyclic of order 2.
Product
To lengthen out; to extend.
He that doth much . . . products his mortality.
Factor
(causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster.
Product
To produce; to make.
Factor
(economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
Product
Commodities offered for sale;
Good business depends on having good merchandise
That store offers a variety of products
Factor
(Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
Product
An artifact that has been created by someone or some process;
They improve their product every year
They export most of their agricultural production
Factor
(transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
Product
A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances;
Skill is the product of hours of practice
His reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue
Factor
To be a product of other objects.
Product
A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction;
A product of lime and nitric acid
Factor
To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
Product
A quantity obtained by multiplication;
The product of 2 and 3 is 6
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.
My factor sends me word, a merchant's fledThat owes me for a hundred tun of wine.
Product
The set of elements common to two or more sets;
The set of red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the set of red things
Factor
A steward or bailiff of an estate.
Factor
One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, form a product.
Factor
One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent; a contributory cause.
The materal and dynamical factors of nutrition.
Factor
To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.
Factor
Anything that contributes causally to a result;
A number of factors determined the outcome
Factor
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
Factor
Any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together
Factor
One of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer;
What are the 4 factors of 6?
Factor
A businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
Factor
An independent variable in statistics
Factor
(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
Factor
Resolve into factors;
A quantum computer can factor the number 15
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