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