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matrix
/ˈmeɪtɹɪks/
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What does matrix mean?
noun
- The cavity or mold in which anything is formed.
- The metaphorical place where something is made, formed, or given birth.
- The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded.
More meanings (19)
noun
- An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants.
- Part of the mitochondrion.
- The medium in which bacteria are cultured.
- A table of data.
- A rectangular arrangement of numbers or terms having various uses such as transforming coordinates in geometry, solving systems of linear equations in linear algebra and representing graphs in graph theory.
- A two-dimensional array.
- (figuratively, slang) Alternative letter-case form of Matrix; a controlled environment or situation in which people behave in ways that conform to pre-determined roles.
- A grid-like arrangement of electronic components, especially one intended for information coding, decoding or storage.
- A geological matrix.
- The sediment surrounding and including the artifacts, features, and other materials at a site.
- The environment from which a given sample is taken.
- The five simple colours (black, white, blue, red, and yellow) from which all the others are formed.
- A binding agent of composite materials, e.g. resin in fibreglass.
- Matrix clause is a clause that has another (subordinate) clause embedded within it.
- (archaic) The womb.
- (historical) In hot metal typesetting, a mold for casting a letter.
- (historical) In printmaking, the plate or block used, with ink, to hold the image that makes up the print.
proper noun
- A simulated reality to which many humans are connected. In some works created by sentient machines to subdue humans.
- (figuratively) A social institution or apparatus perceived as largely deceptive or illusory.
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In what we have termed informal education, subject matter is carried directly in the matrix of social intercourse.
Properly to understand the other phenomena that are the result of significant irritation, their matrix, their aboriginal source must be studied.
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Moreover, thanks to the wall hardened by the salivary fluid, the structure can be removed from its matrix by chipping it carefully away.
The lowest layer is a breccia.4 The matrix is sand of a reddish color, containing many pieces of rock known as red-grit and some pieces of quartz.
It is probable that in these cases the soft parts of the 3d phalanx, and especially the ungual matrix, had not been wholly destroyed.