How to Spell factors
factors
factors - noun
- One that lends money to producers and dealers (as on the security of accounts receivable)
- A good or service (such as land, labor, or capital) used in the process of production
- Gene
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
"costs increased by a factor of 10"
Etymology
Middle English factour "doer, perpetrator, commercial agent," borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin factor "maker, creator, perpetrator" (Medieval Latin, "commercial agent, broker"), from fac-, stem of facere "to make, bring about, perform, do" + -tor, agent suffix