Characteristic vs. Factor — What's the Difference?

Typical of a particular person, place, or thing

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

A feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify them

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

The whole number or integral part of a logarithm, which gives the order of magnitude of the original number.

A level on a scale of measurement.

Being a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing; distinctive

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

A feature that helps to identify, tell apart, or describe recognizably; a distinguishing mark or trait.

An agent who buys and sells goods on commission

(Mathematics) The integral part of a logarithm as distinguished from the mantissa

Another term for factorize

(Mathematics) The least number of times the multiplicative identity in a ring needs to be added to itself to reach the additive identity, or, if the additive identity is never reached, zero. The integers have a characteristic of zero; the integers modulo 12 have a characteristic of 12.

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

Being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

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

A distinguishing feature of a person or thing.

One who acts for someone else; an agent.

(mathematics) The integer part of a logarithm.

One who purchases accounts receivable at a discount.

(nautical) The distinguishing features of a navigational light on a lighthouse etc by which it can be identified (colour, pattern of flashes etc.).

(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.

For a given field or ring, a natural number that is either the smallest positive number n such that n instances of the multiplicative identity (1) summed together yield the additive identity (0) or, if no such number exists, the number 0.

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

Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.

A gene. No longer in technical usage.

A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized.

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

The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm.

To determine or indicate explicitly the factors of

A prominent aspect of something;

To engage in purchasing accounts receivable at a discount.

A distinguishing quality

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

The integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2

An agent or representative.

Any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions

(legal)

Typical or distinctive;

A commission agent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

(Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.

(transitive) 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.

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

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.

A steward or bailiff of an estate.

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

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

To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.

Anything that contributes causally to a result;

An abstract part of something;

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

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

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

An independent variable in statistics

(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;

Resolve into factors;