Factorage
(Fac"tor*age) n. [Cf. F. factorage.] The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for
his services; — called also a commission.
Factoress
(Fac"tor*ess) n. A factor who is a woman. [R.]
Factorial
(Fac*to"ri*al) a.
1. Of or pertaining to a factory. Buchanan.
2. (Math.) Related to factorials.
Factorial
(Fac*to"ri*al), n. (Math.) (a) pl. A name given to the factors of a continued product when
the former are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment
or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product FFF(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h] is called
a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials. Brande & C.
(b) The product of the consecutive numbers from unity up to any given number.
Factoring
(Fac"tor*ing) n. (Math.) The act of resolving into factors.
Factorize
(Fac"tor*ize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Factorized (-?zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Factorizing ] (Law) (a)
To give warning to; — said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning
being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands
to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff. (b) To attach (the effects of a debtor) in the
hands of a third person ; to garnish. See Garnish. [Vt. & Conn.]
Factorship
(Fac"tor*ship), n. The business of a factor.
Factory
(Fac"to*ry) n.; pl. Factories [Cf. F. factorerie.]
1. A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers.
"The Company's factory at Madras." Burke.
2. The body of factors in any place; as, a chaplain to a British factory. W. Guthrie.
3. A building, or collection of buildings, appropriated to the manufacture of goods; the place where workmen
are employed in fabricating goods, wares, or utensils; a manufactory; as, a cotton factory.
Factory leg (Med.), a variety of bandy leg, associated with partial dislocation of the tibia, produced in
young children by working in factories.
Factotum
(Fac*to"tum) n.; pl. Factotums (- tumz). [L., do everything; facere to do + totus all : cf. F.
factotum. See Fact, and Total.] A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. B. Jonson.
