Form factor

Form factor or form-factor may refer to:

Science and technology

Computing and electronics

• Form factor (design), an aspect of design which defines and prescribes the size, shape, and other physical specifications
  • Form factor (mobile phones)
  • Motherboard form factor
  • Hard disk drive form factor
• Form factor (electronics), the functional form of oscillating signals

Physics

• Form factor (quantum field theory), a semi-empirical formula used in effective quantum field theories
• Atomic form factor, or atomic scattering factor, a measure of the amplitude of a wave scattered from an isolated atom
• Electric form factor, the Fourier transform of electric charge distribution in space
• Magnetic form factor, the Fourier transform of an electric current distribution in space
• Form factor (radiative transfer), the proportion of energy transmitted by that object which can be transferred to another object

Other uses

• Form factor, the tree shape in forest inventory timber metrics
• FormFactor, Inc., a semiconductor test and measurement company

See also

• Structure factor, in condensed matter physics