The phrase "alien factor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing elements that are foreign or unfamiliar, particularly in scientific, sociological, or philosophical discussions.
Example: "The researchers identified an alien factor that influenced the behavior of the species in the new environment."
Alternatives: "foreign element" or "external influence".
Frank Bruni (NYT) THE ALIEN FACTOR AND OUT IN ROSWELL... Maybe he was hoping to woo alienated voters.
— Evan Husney, Drafthouse Films "The Alien Factor" (1978) Directed by Don Dohler Image Entertainment A spaceship transporting an interplanetary zoo crashes in the woods outside Baltimore, unleashing a bevy of flesh-eating subspecies.
She concluded, "Take the creepy alien factor out of it, and this could have been any other police procedural".
New York's population of 7.4 million isn't too much lower than that of 1956, if the number of illegal aliens is factored in.
Rather, Natorp claims to find in the first Critique itself the basis for his view that intuition is not a factor "alien to thought [denkfremd]," but that it merely signifies a different aspect of thinking, viz.
However, whether these findings speak to the comprehension issue is unclear, because language comprehension does not require explicit phonemic classification and previous results may therefore relate to factors alien to semantic understanding.
As the most significant characteristic of the E. coli CFT073 genome, the GIs, especially PAIs, differ from the backbone genome by possessing clusters of alien genes, especially virulence factor and virulence-associated factor genes.
Factor in Alien: Isolation and Telltale's second season of The Walking Dead and it's been an entirely decent year for licensed games.
Factor in Alien: Isolation and Telltale's second season of The Walking Dead and it's been a wholly decent year for licensed games.
Results suggest that landscape factors affect alien species richness and abundance differently, which are indicative of species colonization and spread, respectively.
These species are currently threatened by Tavy or slash-and-burn agriculture, logging, overexploitation of biodiversity, alien species and other factors ("Threats to Madagascar's biodiversity and ecosystems," 2011).
