common factor
a number or quantity that is a factor of each member of a group of numbers or quantities: 5 is a common factor of 15 and 20 Also called: common divisor
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How to use common factor in a sentence
Women are battered in all cultures, and the common factor is the social sanction of violence against women.
In New York and the other great cities of America the soil is the sole common factor.
American Sketches | Charles WhibleyThe common factor, of course, is the man with the romantic world set in his heart.
The American Mind | Bliss PerryThe laws of science demanded that he seek the common factor, as source of the whole trouble.
The Brentons | Anna Chapin RayWith this common factor, the way lies open to every kind of error.
More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri Fabre
What common factor is there between a lie, and the "lake of fire in which all liars shall have their part?"
My Path to Atheism | Annie Besant
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