FAC'TOR, noun [Latin factor; facio.] 1. In commerce, an agent employed by merchants, residing in other places, to buy and sell, and to negotiate bills of exchange, or to transact other business on their account. 2. an agent; a substitute. 3. In arithmetic, the multiplier and multiplicand, from the multiplication of which proceeds the product.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI