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A variation on the phrase "what the fuck".
Commonly used by Sho Minamimoto in Square Enix's game The World Ends With You, along with a plethora of other math-related exclamations.
"What the factor?"
"I don't give a digit."
"You factoring hectopascals!"
"So zetta slow!"
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The level of stunning a person is when dressed up, usually based on positive contrast to daily appearance. A very good looking woman who dresses very nicely every day can have a low wow factor as there is no great contrast between how she looks for a special occasion and on a daily basis. A girl who normally dresses in a boyish or sloppy manner however will, when groomed, usually have a high wow factor because of the contrast to how she usually looks
The wow factor is often at play in teen movies where makeovers are involved.
"Did you see Miranda? They got her out of her baggy pants and combat boots and made her wear makeup, hot damn that's really the wow factor at work."
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1. Science - Variables that have no basis in the (heuristic model of the) model, used to fit the model's behaviour to whatever it is supposed to model.
Example: If you want to model the fall time of a stone in the atmosphere, you start with the law of gravity and find it does not give the right fall time, so you first add air friction as a variable.
So far so good, but as you will soon find out that for a particular stone, the friction factor does not only depend on dimensions of the stone. It may also depend on surface roughness, air pressure at the time, water content in the air, iron content of the stone etc.
Despairing to model all these, you add an unexplained variable that you can use to adjust the outcome of the modelling to (aka "calibrating" or "fine-tuning" the model) the observed behaviour.
2. Business - The same as the above, but then applied to economic models and scorecards. Also known in the latter case as 'Management Adjustment'.
1. I don't like experimental physics: too many fudge factors. Where is the predictive value in that?
2. We were pretty much on target last year until the wankers upstairs decided to apply a management adjustment.
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The act of making a seemingly easy or standard task much harder than it actually should be by means of choosing the most unknown or abstract method to complete the task.
Andrew: Well why the fuck did he do it that way?
Matt: That's the Olivier Factor for you...
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noun (slang); An allusion to the Richter Scale which, instead of measuring seismic activity, quantifies the magnitude of undesirable aspects. One of many colloquialisms used to define this magnitude (synonyms: suck-o-meter, dick meter, fail scale, et al).
"I give this whole thing a Sphincter Factor of about 9.5!" -- 'Hippy' (Todd Graff) in The Abyss (film, 1989, dir. James Cameron). Possible origin.
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when you have lived in klamath falls for so long that the girls that you would normal think are ugly, eventually become attractive to you. such as a girl from anywhere else that would be rated as a 4 on a scale from 1 to 10, eventually would become an 8 on a scale from 1 to 10 in klamath falls.
ex1: if you thought you were a hot ass bitch in klamath falls, and you went to the pearl district, as a woman the only thing you could think is im fat, ugly, stupid, and i need a bathroom to throw-up in
ex2: Guy 1- that chick that i nailed last night was hot.
guy 2- no way man, she was a total k-factor, your cock is gonna shrivel up and die... she looked like shrek.
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KIMP = "Kittens I'd Murder for a Pizza"
When traveling overseas for a long time, you finally get to a point when you have had enough foreign food and actually, biologically, NEED a pizza. How many kittens would you murder for one? That's the KIMP factor.
By the time you reach a KIMP factor of 10: it's time to come home.
I spent three weeks in Shanghai, and after only 4 days was up to a KIMP factor of 5. The rest of the time was NOT good.
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