Factor
(n.) One who transacts business for another |
Factor
(n.) A steward or bailiff of an estate. |
Factor
(n.) One of the elements or quantities which, when multiplied together, from a product. |
Factor
(n.) One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result |
Factor
(v. t.) To resolve (a quantity) into its factors. |
Gunter's scale
() A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. |
Scale
(n.) The dish of a balance |
Scale
(n.) The sign or constellation Libra. |
Scaling
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scale |
Scale
(v. t.) To weigh or measure according to a scale |
Scale
(n.) One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid. |
Scale
(n.) Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish |
Scale
(n.) One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura |
Scale
(n.) A scale insect. (See below.) |
Scale
(n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement |
Scale
(n.) The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife. |
Scale
(n.) An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler. |
Scale
(n.) The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals. |
Scale
(v. t.) To strip or clear of scale or scales |
Scale
(v. t.) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth |
Scale
(v. t.) To scatter |
Scale
(v. t.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder. |
Scale
(v. i.) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae |
Scale
(v. i.) To separate |
Scale
(n.) A ladder |
Scale
(n.) Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals. |
Scale
(n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale. |
Scale
(n.) A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing proportionately larger distances |
Scale
(n.) A basis for a numeral system |
Scale
(n.) The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave |
Scale
(n.) Gradation |
Scale
(n.) Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts |
Scale
(v. t.) To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder |
Scale
(v. i.) To lead up by steps |
Scale-winged
(a.) Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera |
Scaling
(a.) Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish |
Scaling
(a.) Serving as an aid in clambering |
| economy of scale | the saving in cost of production that is due to mass production |
| scaling | ascent by or as if by a ladder |
| scaling | act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale |
| Binet-Simon Scale | the first intelligence test |
| scaling grading | the act of arranging in a graduated series |
| scale | a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals |
| fish scale | scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish |
| scale insect | small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering |
| soft scale | an insect active in all stages |
brown soft scale
Coccus hesperidum | pest on citrus trees |
| armored scale | insect having a firm covering of wax especially in the female |
San Jose scale
Aspidiotus perniciosus | small east Asian insect naturalized in the United States that damages fruit trees |
| plate scale shell | a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) |
| scale | an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks |
| scale weighing machine | a measuring instrument for weighing, shows amount of mass |
| scaling ladder | a ladder used to scale walls (as in an attack) |
spring balance
spring scale | a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring |
steelyard
lever scale
beam scale | a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length |
vernier scale
vernier | a small movable scale that slides along a main scale, the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale |
absorptivity
absorption factor | (physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body |
pH
pH scale | (from potential of Hydrogen) the logarithm of the reciprocal of hydrogen-ion concentration in gram atoms per liter, provides a measure on a scale from
to of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution (where is neutral and greater than is more basic and less than is more acidic), |
sun protection factor
SPF | the degree to which a sunscreen protects the skin from the direct rays of the sun |
releasing hormone
RH
releasing factor
hypothalamic releasing hormone
hypothalamic releasing factor | any of several hormones produced in the hypothalamus and carried by a vein to the anterior pituitary gland where they stimulate the release of anterior pituitary hormones, each of these hormones causes the anterior pituitary to secrete a specific hormone |
gene
cistron
factor | (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, genes were formerly called factors |
| cognitive factor | something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result |
determinant
determiner
determinative
determining factor
causal factor | a determining or causal element or factor, education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life |
clincher
decisive factor | a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively |
| scale value | a value on some scale of measurement |
| factor | an independent variable in statistics |
component
constituent
element
factor
ingredient | an abstract part of something, jealousy was a component of his character, two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony, the grammatical elements of a sentence, a key factor in her success, humor: an effective ingredient of a speech |
| factor analysis | any of several methods for reducing correlational data to a smaller number of dimensions or factors, beginning with a correlation matrix a small number of components or factors are extracted that are regarded as the basic variables that account for the interrelations observed in the data |
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire
PF | a selfeport personality inventory developed by Raymond B. Cattell to measure the personality dimensions that emerged from his factor analysis of a wide range of traits |
clincher
determiner determining factor | an argument that is conclusive |
scale
musical scale | (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave) |
| diatonic scale | a scale with eight notes in an octave, all but two are separated by whole tones |
major scale
major diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the rd and th and th and th |
minor scale
minor diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the nd and rd and th and th |
| chromatic scale | a -note scale including all the semitones of the octave |
| gapped scale | a musical scale with fewer than seven notes |
pentatonic scale
pentatone | a gapped scale with five notes, usually the fourth and seventh notes of the diatonic scale are omitted |
C major
C major scale
scale of C major | (music) the major scale having no sharps or flats |
| factor | anything that contributes causally to a result, a number of factors determined the outcome |
scale
scurf exfoliation | a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin |
agent factor
broker | a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission |
leafy liverwort
scale moss | moss-like liverwort with tiny scalelike leaves, usually epiphytic |
scale
scale leaf | a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin |
scale fern
scaly fern
Asplenium ceterach
Ceterach officinarum | small European fern with chaffy leathery fronds |
coefficient of reflection
reflection factor
reflectance
reflectivity | the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface |
| factor | any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together |
| conversion factor | factor by which a quantity that is expressed in one set of units must be multiplied in order to convert it into another set of units |