fact
— Noun
– English
~ an event known to have happened or something known to have existed; "your fears have no basis in fact"; "how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell"
faction
— Noun
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~ a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue
factious
— Adjective
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~ dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)
factitious
— Adjective
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~ not produced by natural forces; "brokers created a factitious demand for stocks"
factoid
— Noun
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~ something resembling a fact; unverified (often invented) information that is given credibility because it appeared in print
factoid
— Noun
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~ a brief (usually one sentence and usually trivial) news item
factor
— Verb
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~ be a contributing factor; "make things factor into a company's profitability"
factor analyze
— Verb
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~ to perform a factor analysis of correlational data
factor analyse
— Verb
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~ to perform a factor analysis of correlational data
factor
— Verb
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~ resolve into factors; "a quantum computer can factor the number 15"
factor
— Verb
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~ consider as relevant when making a decision; "You must factor in the recent developments"
factor analytic
— Adjective
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~ of or relating to or the product of factor analysis
factor analytical
— Adjective
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~ of or relating to or the product of factor analysis
factor
— Noun
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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
— Noun
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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
— Noun
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~ any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together
factor
— Noun
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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
— Noun
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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?"