Divisor vs. Factor: What's the Difference?

Divisor and Factor Definitions
Divisor
The quantity by which another quantity, the dividend, is to be divided.
Factor
One that actively contributes to an accomplishment, result, or process
"Surprise is the greatest factor in war" (Tom Clancy).
Divisor
(arithmetic) A number or expression that another is to be divided by.
In "42 ÷ 3" the divisor is the 3.
Factor
One who acts for someone else; an agent.
Divisor
An integer that divides another integer an integral number of times.
The positive divisors of 6 are 1, 2, 3 and 6.
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Factor
One who purchases accounts receivable at a discount.
Divisor
The number by which the dividend is divided.
Factor
(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.
Divisor
One of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer;
What are the 4 factors of 6?
Factor
A quantity by which a stated quantity is multiplied or divided, so as to indicate an increase or decrease in a measurement
The rate increased by a factor of ten.
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Divisor
The number by which a dividend is divided
Factor
A gene. No longer in technical usage.
Factor
(Physiology) A substance that functions in a specific biochemical reaction or bodily process, such as blood coagulation.
Factor
To determine or indicate explicitly the factors of
If you factor 70, you get 2, 5, and 7.
Factor
To engage in purchasing accounts receivable at a discount.
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Factor
(obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
The factor of the trading post bought the furs.
Factor
An agent or representative.
Factor
(legal)
Factor
A commission agent.
Factor
A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
Factor
A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
Factor
One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
The greatest factor in the decision was the need for public transportation.
The economy was a factor in this year's budget figures.
Factor
(mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
3 is a factor of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6.
The factors of the Klein four-group are both cyclic of order 2.
Factor
(causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster.
Factor
(economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
Factor
(Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.
Factor
(transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
Factor
To be a product of other objects.
Factor
To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
Factor
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.
My factor sends me word, a merchant's fledThat owes me for a hundred tun of wine.
Factor
A steward or bailiff of an estate.
Factor
One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, form a product.
Factor
One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent; a contributory cause.
The materal and dynamical factors of nutrition.
Factor
To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.
Factor
Anything that contributes causally to a result;
A number of factors determined the outcome
Factor
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
Any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together
Factor
One of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer;
What are the 4 factors of 6?
Factor
A businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
Factor
An independent variable in statistics
Factor
(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
Resolve into factors;
A quantum computer can factor the number 15