factor vs member

factor

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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. 

member

noun
  • An element of a set. 

  • A file stored within an archive file. 

  • the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court. 

  • The penis. 

  • A part of a whole. 

  • Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb. 

  • One who officially belongs to a group. 

  • Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign. 

  • A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause. 

  • One of the propositions making up a syllogism. 

  • A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class. 

  • friend 

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