factor – English noun declension

English noun forms of factor

Noun: factor
Singularfactor
Pluralfactors

Sample Sentences

  • The factor of the trading post bought the furs.
  • My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled / That owes me for a hundred tun of wine. [c. 1589–1590 (date written), Christopher Marlo[we], edited by Tho[mas] Heywood, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Iew of Malta. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour, […], published 1633, →OCLC, (please specify the page):]
  • And let such as will number the Kings of Castile and Portugall amongst the warlike and magnanimous conquerors, seeke for some other adherent then my selfe, forsomuch as twelve hundred leagues from their idle residence they have made themselves masters of both Indias, onely by the conduct and direction of their factors, of whom it would be knowne whether they durst but goe and enjoy them in person. [1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 21, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:]
  • What does he therefore, but resolvs to give over toyling, and to find himself out som factor, to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs; som Divine of note and estimation that must be. [1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:]
  • Motor factors — Good factors will stock all of the more important components which wear out relatively quickly. [1985, Haynes Owners Workshop Manual, BMW:]
  • The greatest factor in the decision was the need for public transportation.
  • The economy was a factor in this year's budget figures.
  • 1864-1898, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Biology
  • the material and dynamical factors of nutrition
  • The UN, for its part, has suggested eating insects as a way of feeding those extra mouths, which may put the frankenmeat ick factor in perspective. [2013 August 6, John Michael McGrath, “The Frankenmeat of the Future”, in Hazlitt:]
  • 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.
  • The formula adjusts for region and season by multiplying by a prescribed factor for each.
  • The first thousand primes[…]marched in order before him[…]the complete sequence of all those numbers that possessed no factors except themselves and unity. [1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 38:]
  • The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster.
  • Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies. [2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:]
  • The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled. [2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:]
  • the factor was so scrupulous, as to keep the whole thing from his master, the lord chamberlain [1822, [Walter Scott], The Pirate. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
5. Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
6. Proto-Italic *θakjō
7. Proto-Italic *fakjō
8. Latin faciō
9. Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
10. Proto-Italic *-tōr
11. Latin -tor
12. Latin factorbor.
13. Middle French facteurbor.
14. ▲
15. Latin factorbor.
16. Anglo-Norman factourbor.
17. Middle English factour
18. English factor
19. Inherited from Middle English factour, from Middle French facteur, Anglo-Norman factour, and their etymon Latin factor (“a doer, maker, performer”), from factus (“done or made”), perfect passive participle of faciō (“do, make”). See: Latin Nouns 'factor'.

Verbs referencing "factor"

Portuguese Nouns feitoria, Finnish Nouns faktori.