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.
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.
A general description of some subject.
A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
The outer shape of an object or figure.
A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
A preliminary plan for a project.
A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
A setline or trotline.
To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.
To draw an outline of.
To summarize.