Factor
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A factor, a Latin word meaning 'who/which acts' may refer to:
- Factor (agent), a person who acts for another, notably a mercantile and/or colonial agent
- Factor (Scotland), a person or firm managing a Scottish estate
- Factors of production, a resource used in the production of goods and services
- Factoring (finance), an entity which advances finance against receivable
- Max Factor, a cosmetics firm
- Max Factor, Sr., a Polish-American businessman and cosmetician, founder of the Max Factor Cosmetics Company
- John Factor, a Prohibition-era gangster
In science:
- An enzyme, proteins that catalyze chemical reactions
- Coagulation factors, substances essential for blood coagulation
- A phenomenon presumed to affect an experiment; see design of experiments
In mathematics:
- Factorization the decomposition of an object into a product of other objects
- Integer factorization, the process of breaking down a composite number into smaller non-trivial divisors
- a coefficient
- a divisor of a particular number
- a von Neumann algebra with a trivial center
In technology:
- Factor (programming language), a dynamically typed concatenative programming language
- Authentication factor, a piece of information used to verify a person's identity for security purposes
- Human factors, a profession that focuses on how people interact with products, tools, or procedures
- "Functionality, Application domain, Conditions, Technology, Objects and Responsibility;", In object-oriented programming
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