factorable

Variant of factor

noun

    1. a person who carries on business transactions for another; commission merchant; agent for the sale of goods entrusted to his possession
    2. an agent, as a banking or finance company, engaged in financing the operations of certain companies, or in financing wholesale and retail sales, through the purchase of accounts receivable
  1. Origin: < fig. use of sense 4

    any of the circumstances, conditions, etc. that bring about a result; element or constituent that makes a thing what it is
  2. Biol. gene
  3. Math. any of two or more quantities which form a product when multiplied together

Origin: ME factour < OFr facteur < L factor, doer, maker < pp. of facere, do

transitive verb

Math. to resolve into factors

intransitive verb

to act in the capacity of a factor

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