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factor out

v. resolve into factors; "a quantum computer can factor the number 15" [syn: factor, factor in]

Usage examples of "factor out".

And my religion is comforting, if you factor out some of the ridiculous stuff that sometimes rolls off the tongues of overzealous clerics.

Tennyson fought mentally, sweating and gasping, clawing at his intellect, to factor out the equations, but that was impossible because he did not know the conventions and the signs.

For if the thinker introduced himself as a factor out of proportion to the fact, then the whole problem was distorted and the equation, if equation there be, could never be solved.

Saavik forced one more warp factor out of the straining ship, and it plunged from the nebula into deep space.

To distract herself, Tinker started to factor out large numbers, looking for primes.