资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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}.