multifactorial
multifactorial adjective: involving, or controlled by multiple factors.
Adjective
multifactorial (not comparable)
- Involving, or controlled by multiple factors.
- […] a pattern in medical research on infectious and degenerative diseases in the United States. That pattern shows three main built-in biases: 1) towards a single-agent theory of disease, as opposed to a multi-factorial analysis; 2) […]1989 August 19, Bob Lederer, “Hiding Behind HIV”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 6, page 8
- One of the under-reported dynamics during the coronavirus pandemic has been the collapse of One Nation’s vote. The reasons for this are likely multi-factorial.2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2022
- Involving multiple genetic or environmental factors.
Noun
multifactorial (plural multifactorials)
- A generalization of a factorial in which each element to be multiplied differs from the next by an integer (e.g. n(n-3)(n-6)(n-9)...).
Forms of multifactorial
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Origin of multifactorial
From multi- + factorial.
Words formed from multifactorial
Words that rhyme with multifactorial
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Questions about multifactorial
- What does multifactorial mean?
- Multifactorial means involving, or controlled by multiple factors.
- What part of speech is multifactorial?
- Multifactorial can be an adjective or a noun.
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