Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Noun
S: (n) factor (anything that contributes causally to a result) "a number of factors determined the outcome"
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) divisor, factor (one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer) "what are the 4 factors of 6?"
S: (n) agent, factor, broker (a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission)
S: (n) factor (any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together)
S: (n) factor (an independent variable in statistics)
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) dominant gene (gene that produces the same phenotype in the organism whether or not its allele identical) "the dominant gene for brown eyes"
S: (n) allele, allelomorph ((genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character) "some alleles are dominant over others"