Hypertext Webster Gateway: "facient"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Operator \Op"er*a`tor\, n. [L.]
1. One who, or that which, operates or produces an effect.

2. (Surg.) One who performs some act upon the human body by
means of the hand, or with instruments.

3. A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative
purposes; a speculator. [Brokers' Cant]

4. (Math.) The symbol that expresses the operation to be
performed; -- called also {facient}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Facient \Fa"cient\, n. [L. faciens, -- entis, p. pr. of facere
to make, do. See {Fact}.]
1. One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent.
[Obs.] --Bp. Hacket.

2. (Mach.)
(a) One of the variables of a quantic as distinguished
from a coefficient.
(b) The multiplier.

Note: The terms facient, faciend, and factum, may imply that
the multiplication involved is not ordinary
multiplication, but is either some specified operation,
or, in general, any mathematical operation. See
{Multiplication}.

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