Divisor vs. Factor: What's the Difference?

The quantity by which another quantity, the dividend, is to be divided.

One that actively contributes to an accomplishment, result, or process

(arithmetic) A number or expression that another is to be divided by.

One who acts for someone else; an agent.

An integer that divides another integer an integral number of times.

One who purchases accounts receivable at a discount.

The number by which the dividend is divided.

(Mathematics) One of two or more quantities that divides a given quantity without a remainder. For example, 2 and 3 are factors of 6; a and b are factors of ab.

One of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer;

A quantity by which a stated quantity is multiplied or divided, so as to indicate an increase or decrease in a measurement

The number by which a dividend is divided

A gene. No longer in technical usage.

(Physiology) A substance that functions in a specific biochemical reaction or bodily process, such as blood coagulation.

To determine or indicate explicitly the factors of

To engage in purchasing accounts receivable at a discount.

(obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.

An agent or representative.

(legal)

A commission agent.

A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.

A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.

One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.

(mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.

(causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.

(economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.

(Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.

(transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).

To be a product of other objects.

To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.

One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker.

A steward or bailiff of an estate.

One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, form a product.

One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent; a contributory cause.

To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.

Anything that contributes causally to a result;

An abstract part of something;

Any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together

One of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer;

A businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission

An independent variable in statistics

(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;

Resolve into factors;