facient

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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hacket to this entry?)
  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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for facient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

facient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of faciō
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