greatest common factor

1. 1.

   the largest integer that divides without remainder into a set of integers

   Synonymsgreatest common divisorhighest common factor

   Broadercommon divisor

Questions about greatest common factor

What does greatest common factor mean?

greatest common factor means "the largest integer that divides without remainder into a set of integers".

What is another word for greatest common factor?

Close synonyms include greatest common divisor, highest common factor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is greatest common factor a common word?

greatest common factor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.