facient
See also: -facient
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin faciens, facientis, present participle of facere (“do, make”).
Noun
editfacient (plural facients)
- (obsolete) One who does something; a doer; an agent.
- 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata:
- The Fact is here confess'd : But is Sin in the Fact , or in the Mind of the Facient
- (mathematics) One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
- A multiplier.
Usage notes
edit- The terms facient, faciend, and factum may imply that the multiplication involved is not ordinary multiplication, but some specified operation or a placeholder for any mathematical operation.
References
edit- “facient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
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