Condition vs. Factor — What's the Difference?

The state of something with regard to its appearance, quality, or working order

A circumstance, fact, or influence that contributes to a result

The circumstances or factors affecting the way in which people live or work, especially with regard to their well-being

A number or quantity that when multiplied with another produces a given number or expression

A situation that must exist before something else is possible or permitted

A level on a scale of measurement.

Have a significant influence on or determine (the manner or outcome of something)

Any of a number of substances in the blood, mostly identified by numerals, which are involved in coagulation.

Bring (something) into the desired state for use

An agent who buys and sells goods on commission

Apply a conditioner to (the hair)

Another term for factorize

Set prior requirements on (something) before it can occur or be done

(of a company) sell (its invoices) to a factor

A mode or state of being

One that actively contributes to an accomplishment, result, or process

Conditions Existing circumstances

One who acts for someone else; an agent.

(Archaic) Social position; rank.

One who purchases accounts receivable at a discount.

A state of health

(Mathematics) One of two or more quantities that divides a given quantity without a remainder. For example, 2 and 3 are factors of 6; a and b are factors of ab.

A state of physical fitness

A quantity by which a stated quantity is multiplied or divided, so as to indicate an increase or decrease in a measurement

A disease or physical ailment

A gene. No longer in technical usage.

One that is indispensable to the appearance or occurrence of another; a prerequisite

(Physiology) A substance that functions in a specific biochemical reaction or bodily process, such as blood coagulation.

One that restricts or modifies another; a qualification

To determine or indicate explicitly the factors of

(Grammar) The dependent clause of a conditional sentence; protasis.

To engage in purchasing accounts receivable at a discount.

(Logic) A proposition on which another proposition depends; the antecedent of a conditional proposition.

(obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.

A provision making the effect of a legal instrument contingent on the occurrence of an uncertain future event.

An agent or representative.

The event itself.

(legal)

To make dependent on a condition or conditions

A commission agent.

To stipulate as a condition

A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business.

To cause to be in a certain condition; shape or influence

A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable.

To accustom (oneself or another) to something; adapt

One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result.

To render fit for work or use

(mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.

To improve the physical fitness of (the body, for example), as through repeated sessions of strenuous physical activity.

(causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence.

(Psychology) To cause (an organism) to respond in a specific manner to a previously unrelated stimulus, as in operant conditioning or classical conditioning.

(economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production.

To treat (the air in a room, for example) by air-conditioning.

(Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.

To replace moisture or oils in (hair, for example) by use of a therapeutic product.

(transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).

A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.

To be a product of other objects.

A requirement or requisite.

To sell a debt or debts to an agent (the factor) to collect.

(law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.

One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts business for others in commission; a commission merchant or consignee. He may be a home factor or a foreign factor. He may buy and sell in his own name, and he is intrusted with the possession and control of the goods; and in these respects he differs from a broker.

The health status of a medical patient.

A steward or bailiff of an estate.

A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.

One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, form a product.

The state or quality.

One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result; a constituent; a contributory cause.

A particular state of being.

To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.

(obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.

Anything that contributes causally to a result;

To subject to the process of acclimation.

An abstract part of something;

To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.

Any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together

To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.

One of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer;

(transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.

A businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission

To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.

An independent variable in statistics

(transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.

(genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity;

(transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.

Resolve into factors;

(transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).

To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.

To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.

Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.

Essential quality; property; attribute.

Temperament; disposition; character.

That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified.

A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend.

To make terms; to stipulate.

To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.

To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.

To contract; to stipulate; to agree.

To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study.

To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).

Train; acclimate.

A state at a particular time;

A mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing;

An assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else

(usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement;

The state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape')

Information that should be kept in mind when making a decision;

The procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition

Establish a conditioned response

Train by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control;

Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement;

Put into a better state;

Apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny;