common factor

noun

a number or quantity that is a factor of each member of a group of numbers or quantities Also calledcommon divisor
5 is a common factor of 15 and 20

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.

The common factor, of course, is the man with the romantic world set in his heart.

The laws of science demanded that he seek the common factor, as source of the whole trouble.

With this common factor, the way lies open to every kind of error.

What common factor is there between a lie, and the "lake of fire in which all liars shall have their part?"

April 23, 2024inveterate

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