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potato factor

The scale on which you rate your computer's ability to do computer functions or play games. Usually something most of your friends in the PCMR forget to take into account.
Friend: "Dude, how are you rubber-banding in rocket league? You have a ping of 2?!"
You: "You've obviously forgotten the potato factor"
by ThisFuckerHasDefinitions December 13, 2016
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Dope factor

Coined after the doping scandals that docked the Eurasian plates.
by brutus2618 May 20, 2018
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Balloon Factor

When a company expands quicker than the directors or shareholders can keep up with employees, eventually it explodes like a balloon.
Chris and Pete promised consumer's their investments would be delivered in a set time frame. When that failed, Chris and Pete promised new and better products which sucked further outside investors in. Eventually unable to deliver any products, the company folded....that is the "balloon factor"
by Winfield83 January 3, 2019
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Haggis Factor

A hidden cost factor used by any scottish person who owns a business.
Mr. MacKay buys product at a certain price and marks it up using a haggis factor to overinflate the cost.
by hfactor October 12, 2009
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scale factor

A scale factor is a number which scales, or multiplies, some quantity. In the equation y = Cx, C is the scale factor for x. C is also the coefficient of x, and may be called the constant of proportionality of y to x. For example, doubling distances corresponds to a scale factor of two for distance, while cutting a cake in half results in pieces with a scale factor of one half. The basic equation for it is image over primeage. In the field of measurements, the scale factor of an instrument is sometimes referred to as sensitivity. The ratio of any two corresponding lengths in two similar geometric figures is also called a scale factor.
Too hard to discribe scale factor in a sentence
by Omgjehd December 8, 2016
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Partyability Factor

A characteristic or variable by which a person or thing are perceived to contribute positively to a situation or occurrence, generally to the point that a party may spontaneously break out, or die, simply due to the very presence of the person or thing itself.

If something has a high Partyability Factor, generally it will make any situation better. If something has a low partyability factor, it will likely be detrimental.

Small pockets of high octane Canadians are known to judge most things and people by their partyability factor, ridding themselves of all low-partyability possessions. Some have been known to end relationships, even marriages, due to a low partyability factor.
High Partyability Factor: Double vodka Red-Bull.

Low Partyability Factor: When a woman kicks a guy in the nuts.

High Partyability Factor: Menage a trois.

Low Partyability Factor: Decaffeinated Coffee.
by wAXtonPOTson February 26, 2010
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Nick Factor

The act of over engineering something to a magnitude of up to 50%, but no less than 25%.
That hoser Nick applied a Nick Factor again.
by Unknown Hoser July 12, 2018
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