Part 4131

<blockquote>My <b>factor</b> sends me word, a merchant's fled That owes me for a hundred tun of wine. <i>Marlowe.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A steward or bailiff of an estate.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent.</def>

<blockquote>The materal and dynamical <b>factors</b> of nutrition. <i>H. Spencer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Factor</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fac"tor</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Factored</er> <tt>(-t?rd)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Factoring</er>.]</wordforms> <fld>(Mach.)</fld> <def>To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.</def>

<h1>Factorage</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fac"tor*age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>factorage</ets>.]</ety> <def>The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a <altname>commission</altname>.</def>

<h1>Factoress</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fac"tor*ess</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A factor who is a woman.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Factorial</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fac*to"ri*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to a factory.</def>

<i>Buchanan.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>Related to factorials.</def>

<h1>Factorial</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fac*to"ri*al</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>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 <i>h</i> to the independent variable. Thus the product <mathex>F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h]</mathex> is called a <i>factorial term</i>, and its several factors take the name of <i>factorials</i>.</def>

<i>Brande & C.</i>

<sd>(b)</sd> <def>The product of the consecutive numbers from unity up to any given number</def>.

<h1>Factoring</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fac"tor*ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Math.)</fld> <def>The act of resolving into factors.</def>

<h1>Factorize</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fac"tor*ize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Factorized</er> <tt>(-?zd)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Factorizing</er> <tt>(-?"z?ng)</tt>.]</wordforms> <fld>(Law)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff</def>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>To attach (the effects of a debtor) in the hands of a third person ; to garnish. See <er>Garnish</er>.</def> <mark>[Vt. & Conn.]</mark>

<h1>Factorship</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fac"tor*ship</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The business of a factor.</def>

<h1>Factory</h1> <Xpage=536>

<hw>Fac"to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Factories</plw> <tt>(-r<?/z)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>factorerie</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.</def> "The Company's <i>factory</i> at Madras."