fact vs factor

fact

noun
  • Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances. 

  • An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse. 

  • An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts. 

  • Something which is real. 

  • A wrongful or criminal deed. 

  • Something actual as opposed to invented. 

  • Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation. 

intj
  • Used before making a statement to introduce it as a trustworthy one. 

factor

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

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

  • Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence. 

  • A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production. 

  • An agent or representative. 

  • A commission agent. 

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

  • A steward or bailiff of an estate. 

  • Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole. 

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

  • 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. 

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