n. One who transacts business for another or others; specifically, in com., a commission-merchant; an agent intrusted with the possession of goods for sale.n. In Scotland, a person appointed by a heritor, landholder, or house-proprietor to manage an estate, to let lands or tenements on lease, to collect rents, etc.n. An agent or a deputy generally.n. In American law, in some of the United States, a person charged as a garnishee.n. In mathematics, one of the two or more numbers, expressions, or quantities which when multiplied together produce a given product: as, 6 and 3 are factors of 18.n. One of several circumstances, elements, or influences which tend to the production of a given result.n. See the adjectives.To act as factor for; look after, let, and draw the rents for; manage: as, to factor property.In mathematics, to resolve into factors: as, x—y is factored into (x + y) (x—y).To act as factor.n. In electricity, in alternating current-waves, a constant which characterizes the shape of the wave: usually defined as the ratio of the effective value of the wave to the effective value of a sine wave of equal mean value.n. Specifically, in an engine, the ratio of the difference between the maximum and mean turning moments to the mean turning moment. This factor determines the weight of the fly-wheel necessary to make the engine run steadily, the function of the fly-wheel being the storing up of energy at the time of the maximum turning moment, or when it is greater than the mean, and the giving up of that energy when the turning moment is less than the mean.