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 |
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 |
somatotropin somatotrophin somatotropic hormone somatotrophic hormone STH human growth hormone growth hormone | a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland, promotes growth in humans |
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 |
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 |
emergence outgrowth growth | the gradual beginning or coming forth, figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece |
factor | anything that contributes causally to a result, a number of factors determined the outcome |
rapid climb rapid growth zoom | a rapid rise |
growth industry | an industry that is growing rapidly |
growth | vegetation that has grown, a growth of trees, the only growth was some salt grass |
growth | something grown or growing, a growth of hair |
agent factor broker | a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission |
annual ring growth ring | an annual formation of wood in plants as they grow |
old growth virgin forest | forest or woodland having a mature or overly mature ecosystem more or less uninfluenced by human activity |
second growth | a second growth of trees covering an area where the original stand was destroyed by fire or cutting |
growth stock | stock of a corporation that has had faster than average gains in earnings and is expected to continue to |
economic growth | steady growth in the productive capacity of the economy (and so a growth of national income) |
growth growing maturation development ontogeny ontogenesis | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically, a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level, he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children |
growth | a progression from simpler to more complex forms, the growth of culture |
increase increment growth | a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important, the increase in unemployment, the growth of population |
population growth | increase in the number of people who inhabit a territory or state |
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 |
factor of proportionality constant of proportionality | the constant value of the ratio of two proportional quantities x and y, usually written y kx, where k is the factor of proportionality |
prime factor | the prime factors of a quantity are all of the prime quantities that will exactly divide the given quantity |
divisor factor | one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer, what are the factors of ? |
multiplier multiplier factor | the number by which a multiplicand is multiplied |
scale factor | a number used as a multiplier in scaling |
time-scale factor | the ratio of the simulation time to the time of the real process |
equivalent-binary-digit factor | the average number of binary digits needed to express one radix digit in a numeration system that is not binary, on the average a number that can be expressed in N decimal digits takes .N binary digits |
common divisor common factor common measure | an integer that divides two (or more) other integers evenly |
greatest common divisor greatest common factor highest common factor | the largest integer that divides without remainder into a set of integers |
correction fudge factor | a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure |
load factor | (aeronautics) the ratio of an external load to the weight of the aircraft (measured in g) |
safety factor factor of safety | the ratio of the breaking stress of a structure to the estimated maximum stress in ordinary use |
type I diabetes insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus IDDM juvenile-onset diabetes juvenile diabetes growth-onset diabetes ketosis-prone diabetes ketoacidosis-prone diabetes autoimmune diabetes | severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset, characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss and episodic ketoacidosis, diet and insulin injections are required to control the disease |
rheumatoid factor | autoantibody that is usually present in the serum of people with rheumatoid arthritis |
growth | (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) |
growth factor | a protein that is involved in cell differentiation and growth |
nerve growth factor NGF | a protein that is involved in the growth of peripheral nerve cells |
tumor necrosis factor tumour necrosis factor TNF | a proinflammatory cytokine that is produced by white blood cells (monocytes and macrophages), has an antineoplastic effect but causes inflammation (as in rheumatoid arthritis) |