促成結果的因素
日常的一支：好幾樣東西共同造成一個局面，每一樣都是其中一份「原料」。
contributing cause · noun · B2
One of several things that helps to cause a situation or affect what happens.
因素 / 原因
核心畫面
You can picture a factor as one of the ingredients that goes into making a result — one of the several things working together to push an outcome one way or another. In maths the same idea tightens up: a factor is one of the numbers that multiply together to build a bigger number.
可以想成：factor 的核心畫面比較像「促成某個結果的其中一份原料」——好幾樣東西一起作用，把結果往這邊或那邊推，…更多收起
可以想成：factor 的核心畫面比較像「促成某個結果的其中一份原料」——好幾樣東西一起作用，把結果往這邊或那邊推，每一樣都是一個 factor。到了數學裡，同一個想法收得更緊：一個 factor 就是相乘起來能組成更大數字的其中一個數。Three branches
刻度上的一個數值
從「促成結果的東西」收斂成一個能量化的數：用一個數字去標出某樣東西有多強、變化了幾倍。
rating number · noun · B2
A number on a scale that shows how strong or how powerful something is.
係數 / 指數
數學上的因數（與動作）
核心畫面在數學裡最精準的版本：能整除某數的數，就是組成它的「原料數」；把一個數拆回這些原料，就是動詞 factor。
number that divides evenly · noun · B2
A number that divides into another number exactly, with nothing left over.
因數
原始詞典資料15 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Factorname
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A surname.
factornoun/ˈfæk.təː/
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obsoleteA doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
- The factor of the trading post bought the furs.
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An agent or representative; a reseller or distributor (sometimes with a private label); a consignee.
- My factor sends me word, a merchant's fled / That owes me for a hundred tun of wine.
- And let such as will number the Kings of Castile and Portugall amongst the warlike and magnanimous conquerors, seeke for some other adherent then my selfe, forsomuch as twelve hundred leagues from their idle residence they have made themselves masters of both Indias, onely by the conduct and direction of their factors, of whom it would be knowne whether they durst but goe and enjoy them in person.
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lawA commission agent.
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lawA person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.
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lawA business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.
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One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.
- The greatest factor in the decision was the need for public transportation.
- The economy was a factor in this year's budget figures.
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mathematicssciencesAny of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
- 3 is a factor of 12, as are 2, 4 and 6.
- The factors of the Klein four-group are both cyclic of order 2.
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Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.
- The launch temperature was a factor of the Challenger disaster.
- Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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economicssciencesA resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.
- The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
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A steward or bailiff of an estate.
- the factor was so scrupulous, as to keep the whole thing from his master, the lord chamberlain
factorverb/ˈfæk.təː/
- 1
To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).
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To rewrite an expression as the product of its factors.
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To be a product of other objects.
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businesscommercecommercialTo sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。