Factor

(noun.) an independent variable in statistics.

(noun.) anything that contributes causally to a result; 'a number of factors determined the outcome'.

(noun.) any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together.

(verb.) resolve into factors; 'a quantum computer can factor the number 15'.

(verb.) consider as relevant when making a decision; 'You must factor in the recent developments'.

(verb.) be a contributing factor; 'make things factor into a company's profitability'.

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• The _cable car_ is a factor which has cut no small figure in the activities of city life. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The moving of passengers and freight seems to be directly related to the progress of civilization, and the factor whose influence has been most felt in this field is the steam locomotive. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Electricity a Living Factor. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Essential Factor in American Life. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The study of apparatus for obtaining more perfect vacua was unceasingly carried on, for Edison realized that in this there lay a potent factor of ultimate success. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But in its case, the quality of the resulting knowledge is the controlling factor and not an incident of the activity. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Yes, and that is a factor which we must certainly not neglect. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The reaper was a very vital factor in the development of that country, and McCormick deserved the credit of being one of the greatest profit-builders of the land. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• A prominent factor in the electrical art is the _Storage Battery_, Secondary Battery, or Accumulator, as it is variously called. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Here we note it simply as an added factor in the heterogeneous mixture of the British Colonies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Entering as a factor into an activity pursued for its own sake--whether as a means or as a widening of the content of the aim--it is informing. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The former is then thought to be purely intellectual and cognitive; the latter to be an irrelevant and intruding physical factor. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The essential factor in the organization of a living state, the world is coming to realize, is the organization of an education. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The early kodak film became the great factor in the cinematograph manufacture. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Hutton thought that t he compression under which the subterranean heat had been applied was a factor in the solution of these problems. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• To overcome these three disturbing factors a very ingenious form of balance has been devised. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In conclusion, we note that the early history of the idea of following nature combined two factors which had no inherent connection with one another. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• We have already noted that plasticity is the capacity to retain and carry over from prior experience factors which modify subsequent activities. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Two factors conspire in the later period of ancient life, however, to exalt literary and humanistic studies. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• What other factors are there to be taken into consideration to explain this phenomenon? 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Intelligence is narrowed to the factors concerned with technical production and marketing of goods. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The outcome is that kind of check and balance of segregated factors and values which has been described. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Consequently, the training is much more general; that is to say, it covers a wider territory and includes more factors. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The dynamo is one of the great factors of modern civilization, and its potential name, like that of dynamite, rightly defines its character. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Clearly there are two factors in will. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The activities mentioned in Chapter XV contain within themselves the factors later discriminated into fine and useful arts. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The strength of a steady current depends upon these two factors only, the electromotive force which causes it and the resistance which it has to overcome. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• If called upon to name the most important of all factors of human existence, that which underlies and sustains all others, even to life itself, everyone must agree that it is _food_. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• As social life grows more complex, these factors increase in number and import. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But there are other factors to be considered. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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