facient

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See also: -facient

English

Etymology

From Latin faciens, facientis, present participle of facere (do, make).

Noun

facient (plural facients)

  1. (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
  2. (mathematics) One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished from a coefficient.
  3. A multiplier.

Usage notes

  • 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.

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Anagrams

Latin

Verb

facient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of faciō