(US, slang) An intangible quality, usually attributed to certain items of professional equipment but sometimes to particular positions within predominantly and traditionally male professions such as law enforcement and the military where the term is most frequently used, that is believed to stir inordinate interest in obtaining the item or position because it makes the possessor feel confident, cool and thus desirable to women.

(colloquial, humorous) The degree to which somebody cares about something.

(informal) The feature of a situation, product etc. that generates amazement and excitement.

plural of factor market

plural of integer factorization

plural of prime factorization

In management accounting, a constraint that limits the business from achieving a higher level of profitability.

(Scotland) An administrator appointed by the courts to manage the estate of someone under some imperfection.

(business, originally software engineering) A measurement of the risk of losing team members, in terms of information and abilities no longer available to the team.

(algebra, ring theory) For given ring R, any ideal I such that Q = R / I, the set of cosets of elements of I in R, is a ring (the quotient ring of I in R).