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Definition of "common factor" [common factor]

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "common factor" in a sentence
  • "All the documents related to the JU, but there was no other common factor that Lindsay could discern, apart from the fact that they all seemed to be completely in order."
  • "Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), who in his Scienza nuova noted that rituals concerning birth, marriage, and death constitute a common factor in all religions."
  • "The common factor among all these smiths and porters, switchmen and saddlers, conductors and mechanics was exclusively that they were all workers in the employ of the railroad."