factorization

American  

[fak-ter-uh-zay-shuhn, fak-ter-ahy-] / ˌfæk tər əˈzeɪ ʃən, ˌfæk tərˌaɪ- /

noun

plural

factorizations

1. Mathematics. the breaking down of a quantity, such as a number or an expression, into factors whose product equals that quantity; the result of this process.

2. the act or process of factoring something, or resolving it into its component parts.

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Other Word Forms

• prefactorization noun
• refactorization noun

Example Sentences

Quantum computers would have the capacity to be faster than traditional computers at optimization problems like analyzing supply chains, simulation problems like discovering new chemical combinations for drugs, machine learning and factorization.

From The Wall Street Journal

The idea is to express the matrix as a product of simpler matrices—similar to the prime factorization of a number.

From Scientific American

The implications were immediately obvious: prime factorization was the backbone of modern encryption.

From Scientific American

I appreciated it even more when I saw how the poem was based on the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, which states that every whole number greater than 1 has a unique prime factorization.

From Scientific American

Data encryption typically relies on the practical difficulty of a process called prime factorization.

From Nature