Factor vs. Reason

Factornoun

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

Factornoun

An agent or representative.

Factornoun

(legal)

Factornoun

A commission agent.

Factornoun

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

Factornoun

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

Factornoun

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

Factornoun

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

Factornoun

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

Factornoun

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

Factornoun

(Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.

Factorverb

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

Factorverb

To be a product of other objects.

Factorverb

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

Factornoun

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.

Factornoun

A steward or bailiff of an estate.

Factornoun

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

Factornoun

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

Factorverb

To resolve (a quantity) into its factors.

Factornoun

anything that contributes causally to a result;

Factornoun

an abstract part of something;

Factornoun

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

Factornoun

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

Factornoun

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

Factornoun

an independent variable in statistics

Factornoun

(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;

Factorverb

resolve into factors;

Factornoun

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

Factornoun

a gene that determines a hereditary characteristic

Factornoun

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

Factornoun

a number or algebraic expression by which another is exactly divisible.

Factornoun

a level on a scale of measurement.

Factornoun

(with numeral) a sunscreen of the sun protection factor specified

Factornoun

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

Factornoun

an agent who buys and sells goods on commission

Factornoun

a company that buys a manufacturer's invoices at a discount and takes responsibility for collecting the payments due on them.

Factornoun

a land agent or steward

Factornoun

an agent, deputy, or representative.

Factorverb

another term for factorize

Factorverb

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

Reasonnoun

A cause:

Reasonnoun

That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.

Reasonnoun

A motive for an action or a determination.

Reasonnoun

An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.

Reasonnoun

(uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.

Reasonnoun

(obsolete) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.

Reasonnoun

Ratio; proportion.

Reasonverb

(intransitive) To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational

Reasonverb

(intransitive) To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.

Reasonverb

(intransitive) To converse; to compare opinions.

Reasonverb

(transitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.

Reasonverb

To support with reasons, as a request.

Reasonverb

(transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.

Reasonverb

To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.

Reasonverb

To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.

Reasonnoun

A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument.

Reasonnoun

The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive or ratiocinative faculty.

Reasonnoun

Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice.

Reasonnoun

Ratio; proportion.

Reasonverb

To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.

Reasonverb

Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth propositions and the inferences from them; to argue.

Reasonverb

To converse; to compare opinions.

Reasonverb

To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as, I reasoned the matter with my friend.

Reasonverb

To support with reasons, as a request.

Reasonverb

To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan.

Reasonverb

To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; - with down; as, to reason down a passion.

Reasonverb

To find by logical processes; to explain or justify by reason or argument; - usually with out; as, to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon.

Reasonnoun

a rational motive for a belief or action;

Reasonnoun

an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon;

Reasonnoun

the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination;

Reasonnoun

the state of having good sense and sound judgment;

Reasonnoun

a justification for something existing or happening;

Reasonnoun

a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion;

Reasonverb

decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion;

Reasonverb

present reasons and arguments

Reasonverb

think logically;

Reason

Reason is the capacity of consciously applying logic to seek truth and draw conclusions from new or existing information. It is closely associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, science, language, mathematics, and art, and is normally considered to be a distinguishing ability possessed by humans.