Factor
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A factor can be:
- a person acting as a mercantile agent, or, in Scotland, a person who manages property on behalf of the owner;
- a number that is a divisor of another number in mathematics;
- an enzyme in biochemistry;
- an abbreviation for Functionality, Application domain, Conditions, Technology, Objects, and Responsibility in the OOA&D method;
- a leader of a cell in one of the philosophical factions in the Planescape setting for Dungeons & Dragons;
- in mathematics, a von Neumann algebra with a trivial center;
- the Factor programming language, created by Slava Pestov;
- something which is believed to have an effect on a response variable in an experiment (see design of experiments).