factor vs trait

factor

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

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

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

  • 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. 

trait

noun
  • An identifying characteristic, habit or trend. 

  • An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface. 

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