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In fact; by the act or fact. De facto. (Law) See De facto.

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 poss…

The allowance given to a factor, as a compensation for his services; -- called also a commission.

A factor who is a woman. [R.]

Of or pertaining to a factory. Buchanan.

The act of resolving into factors.

To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff.

The business of a factor.

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company's factory at Madras." Burke.

A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. B. Jonson.

Relating to, or containing, facts. [R.]

A man's own act and deed; particularly:

The act or manner of making or doing anything; -- now used of a literary, musical, or pictorial production. Bacon.

To break; to violate. [Obs.] Shak.

Having a part displaced, as if broken; -- said of an ordinary. Macaulay.

The act of breaking, or state of being broken, especially by violence. [Obs.] Neither can the natural body of Christ be subject to any fraction or breaking up. Foxe.

Of or pertaining to fractions or a fraction; constituting a fraction; as, fractional numbers.

By fractions or separate portions; as, to distill a liquid fractionally, that is, so as to separate different portions.

Fractional. [Obs.]

To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.