Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FAC'TOR
FAC'TOR, n. [L. factor; Fr. facteur; It. fattore; from L. facio.]
- In commerce, an agent employed by merchants, residing in other places, to buy and sell, and to negotiate bills of exchange, or to transact other business on their account.
- An agent; a substitute.
- In arithmetic, the multiplier and multiplicand, from the multiplication of which proceeds the product.
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