factor out

• Verbe à particule utilisé pour désigner l'action d'exclure ou de retirer un élément ou une variable donnée d'une considération ou d'un calcul.

A phrasal verb used to indicate the act of excluding or removing a particular element or variable from a consideration or calculation.

indénombrable · transitif · phrasal, séparable

1. Remove from considerationformal

   To deliberately exclude or ignore a particular element or variable when analyzing a situation.

   Exclure de l'analyse

   • When calculating the budget, we need to factor out any one-time expenses.
   • To understand the core issue, you must factor out the emotional responses.
   • The researchers factored out the outliers to get a clearer result.

   Synonymesdiscountdisregardexcludeignoreleave outomitset aside

   Antonymesaccountconsiderincludeincorporate

2. Mathematical extractionformal

   In mathematics, to separate a common factor from an expression.

   factoriser (mettre en facteur)

   • You can factor out the common term 'x' from the equation.
   • The teacher showed how to factor out the greatest common divisor.
   • Factor out the negative sign to simplify the expression.

   Synonymesextractpull outremoveseparate outtake out

Verbe de basefactor