(Britain) A trader in grains.

(economics) The phenomenon whereby many small purchases add up to a significant expenditure over time.

A factor that encourages one to leave one's current home, region, country, organization, or religion.

plural of motor factor

(Britain, Ireland, chiefly in the plural) A retail supplier of car parts and accessories.

(physics) a factor arising frequently in special relativity, to calculate the degree of time dilation, length contraction and relativistic mass of an object moving relative to an observer, defined as (1-v²/c²)^(-0.5), where v and c are relative velocity and the speed of light, respectively

The sleazy or sordid aspect of a political situation. / The corrupt or tainted element of a political party or administration.

A measure of the quality of an electric circuit; the ratio of the reactance to the resistance.

(in an electromagnetic coil) The ratio of the volume occupied by the wire in the winding, or the iron in the core, to the total volume of the winding or the core

(idiomatic) The emotional dimension of decision-making. A person's subjective (often almost visceral) feelings about what is right or wrong, good or bad.