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(US, law) Any trait of a person, such as their race, that may give them an advantage under affirmative action.

plural of factor space

(topology, idiomatic) A space obtained from another by identification of points that are equivalent to one another in some equivalence relation.

(Scotland) An administrator appointed by the courts to manage the estate of someone under some imperfection.

A measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in an academic journal, used as an approximation of the relative importance of a journal within its field.

(quantum mechanics) A normalized complex number, considered as, say, the scalar coefficient of a ket.

(economics) The system or infrastructure for economic exchange within which factors of production (such as labor, materials, or capital) are purchased or sold.

(category theory) Said of a morphism: to be equal to a composition of two morphisms, one of which is the given morphism (that is being said to be "factored through").

(politics) A distinguishing trait that helps a party or faction win popular approval, other than their general policies.