WordNet
common factor
n. an integer that divides two (or more) other integers evenly [syn: common divisor, common measure]
Usage examples of "common factor".
Were they affected by the same dramatic climate changes, suggesting that some common factor might have been at work?
And it implies, he reasoned, some uniformity, some common factor, between the entity Genux-B and the entity Herb Sousa.
She also saw them as a group with no other common factor -- aside from the invisible prerequisite of perfect pitch -- than age.
But both of these two faculties arise from one common factor: man's foresight, his ability to assess and discriminate, in his mind, the possible outcome of events or the effect of doing certain things.