factoid
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~ a brief (usually one sentence and usually trivial) news item
factor
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~ an independent variable in statistics
factor
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~ (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; "genes were formerly called factors"
factor analysis
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~ any of several methods for reducing correlational data to a smaller number of dimensions or factors; beginning with a correlation matrix a small number of components or factors are extracted that are regarded as the basic variables that account for the interrelations observed in the data
factor
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~ any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together
factor
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~ an abstract part of something; "jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech"
factor
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~ one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer; "what are the 4 factors of 6?"
factor
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~ a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
factor
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~ anything that contributes causally to a result; "a number of factors determined the outcome"
factorial
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~ the product of all the integers up to and including a given integer; "1, 2, 6, 24, and 120 are factorials"
factoring
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~ (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression
factorisation
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~ (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression
factorization
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~ (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression
factory
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~ a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
factotum
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~ a servant employed to do a variety of jobs
factuality
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~ the quality of being actual or based on fact; "the realm of factuality must be distinguished from the realm of imagination"
factualness
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~ the quality of being actual or based on fact; "the realm of factuality must be distinguished from the realm of imagination"
facula
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~ a bright spot on a planet
facula
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~ a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots
faculty
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~ one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind