Phrase Hound found 124 phrases and 48 compound words that contain factor. The most common are listed below. Open factor in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 124
- factor of productionA resource used to produce goods and services, such as labor, land, or capital.
- form factorThe ratio of the RMS value to the absolute mean of a sinusoidal wave (especially to that of an alternating current).
- risk factorSomething that increases risk or susceptibility.
- transcription factorA protein that binds to specific DNA sequences, thereby controlling the flow (or transcription) of genetic information from DNA to mRNA.
- growth factorA naturally-occurring substance capable of stimulating cellular growth, proliferation, and cellular differentiation.
- factor analysisA statistical method used to describe variability among observed correlated variables in terms of one or more unobserved variables (called factors).
- common factorA number that can divide two different numbers, without leaving a remainder.
- factor outTo isolate a common factor from an expression.
- safety factorThe ratio of the maximum stress or load which something can withstand to the stress or load which it was designed to withstand under normal operation.
- power factorThe ratio of the actual power to the apparent power in an alternating current power system; specifically, the cosine of the phase angle between the voltage and the current.
- prime factorA factor of a given integer which is also a prime number.
- limiting factorA constraint that limits the business from achieving a higher level of profitability.
- load factorThe acceleration experienced by an aircraft along a given axis at a particular instant in time.
- tumor necrosis factorAny of several polypeptide hormones, produced by macrophages, that can destroy some cancer cells.
- X factorAn unknown or hard-to-define influence; a factor with unknown or unforeseeable consequences.
- Critical Factor
- factor marketThe system or infrastructure for economic exchange within which factors of production (such as labor, materials, or capital) are purchased or sold.
- Scale factor
- Scaling factor
- Initiation factor
- Conversion factor
- sun protection factorAn indication of how long a sunscreen remains effective when applied to the skin.
- impact factorA measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in an academic journal, used as an approximation of the relative importance of a journal within its field.
- bus factorA measurement of the risk of losing team members, in terms of information and abilities no longer available to the team.
- factor throughSaid of a morphism: to be equal to a composition of two morphisms, one of which is the given morphism (that is being said to be "factored through").
Compound words 48
- factoryA building or other place where manufacturing takes place.
- formfactorAny of various calculations representing the shape or distribution of a physical property within a microsystem such as an elementary particle or atomic nucleus.
- multifactorOf or pertaining to more than one factor.
- subfactorA particular form of subalgebra
- misfactorTo err when determining the factors of.
- neurofactorA neurological factor.
- telefactorA remote manipulation system in which a slave device mimics the motions of a master device manipulated directly by the operator.
- bifactorA factor that influences two (separate or related) consequences
- biofactorAny material that has a significant biochemical function
- factoristA statistician who uses factor analysis.