Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The product of all the positive integers from 1 to a given number.
  • adjective Of or relating to a factor or factorial.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to a factor or factory; constituting a factory.
  • In mathematics, of or pertaining to a factor or factorials. See II.
  • noun In mathematics, a continued product of the form Fx, F(x+1), F(x+2), F(x+3), … F(x+n), in which every factor after the first is derived from the preceding by increasing the variable by unity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a factory.
  • adjective (Math.) Related to factorials.
  • noun A name given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) … F[x + (n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials.
  • noun The product of the consecutive whole numbers from unity up to any given number.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun mathematics, combinatorics The result of multiplying a given number of consecutive integers from 1 to the given number. In equations, it is symbolized by an exclamation mark (!). For example, 5! = 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 = 120.
  • adjective mathematics Of or pertaining to a factor or factorial.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to a factor.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to a factory.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the product of all the integers up to and including a given integer
  • adjective of or relating to factorials

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  • The continuous product of the first 'n' natural numbers is called factorial n and is deonoted by n!

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  • The continuous product of the first 'n' natural numbers is called factorial n and is deonoted by n!

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