multifactorial

About 0.47 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Involving, or controlled by multiple factors.
2. adjective Involving multiple genetic or environmental factors.
3. noun A generalization of a factorial in which each element to be multiplied differs from the next by an integer (e.g. n(n-3)(n-6)(n-9)...).

Similar words

multivariate multifaceted multi-factorial multifactoral multifactored multifactor monofactorial multidetermined multideterminant polyfactorial

Often followed by

inheritance and in etiology nature disease disorders model diseases

Word family

multifactor multifactorially