The property of behaving in a matter-of-fact manner.

(US, law) An agent of the person giving him/her the power of attorney (for a specific purpose or for general purposes) to act on his or her behalf. The attorney-in-fact’s power and responsibilities depend on the specific powers granted in the power of attorney document.

(law) A person or group of people given the responsibility of determining the facts of a case from evidence presented in a legal proceeding.

(adverbial) Actually, in fact.

A printed presentation of data that shows the most important or relevant facts in a simple, easy-to-read manner

brute fact (when used attributively)

An inscrutable datum of experience; a thing that is undeniably the case, but which is impervious to reasoned explication.

plural of attorney-in-fact

simple past tense and past participle of fact check

present participle of fact check