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factorially

factorially adverb: according to a factorial series or ratio.

Adverb

factorially (not comparable)

  1. According to a factorial series or ratio.
    • The King rushed forward with all his cruel coordinates and mean values, stumbled into a dark forest of roots and logarithms, had to backtrack, then encountered the beast on a field of irrational numbers (F₁) and smote it so grievously that it fell two decimal places and lost an epsilon, but the...1974, Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, The Cyberiad

Origin of factorially

From factorial + -ly.

Questions about factorially

What does factorially mean?
Factorially means according to a factorial series or ratio.
What part of speech is factorially?
Factorially is an adverb.

Words near factorially in the dictionary

  1. factorializations
  2. factorialize
  3. factorialized
  4. factorializes
  5. factorializing
  6. factorially
  7. factorials
  8. factoried
  9. factories
  10. factoring
  11. factoring in

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