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Definition of 'matrix'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) matrix
something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates.

2.  matrix
a formative tissue, as the epithelium from which nails grow.

3.  matrix
the intercellular substance of a tissue.

4.  matrix
the fine-grained portion of a rock in which coarser crystals or rock fragments are embedded.

5.  matrix
a crystalline phase in an alloy in which other phases are embedded.

6.  matrix
a mold for casting typefaces.

7.  matrix
(in a press or stamping machine) a multiple die or perforated block on which the material to be formed is placed.

8.  matrix
a rectangular array of numbers, algebraic symbols, or mathematical functions, esp. when such arrays are added and multiplied according to certain rules.

9.  matrix
a similar rectangular array consisting of rows and columns of numbers, symbols, etc., used in displaying statistical variables, linguistic features, or other data.

Etymology: (1325–75; < L mātrīx female animal kept for breeding (LL: register, orig. of such beasts), parent stem (of plants), der. of māter mother)

Definition of 'matrix'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) matrix
(mathematics) a rectangular array of quantities or expressions set out by rows and columns; treated as a single element and manipulated according to rules

2. (noun) matrix
(geology) amass of fine-grained rock in which fossils, crystals, or gems are embedded

3. (noun) matrix
an enclosure within which something originates or develops (from the Latin for womb)

4. (noun) matrix, intercellular substance, ground substance
the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded

5. (noun) matrix
the formative tissue at the base of a nail

6. (noun) matrix
mold used in the production of phonograph records, type, or other relief surface

Definition of 'matrix'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) matrix
the womb

2. (noun) matrix
hence, that which gives form or origin to anything

3. (noun) matrix
the cavity in which anything is formed, and which gives it shape; a die; a mold, as for the face of a type

4. (noun) matrix
the earthy or stony substance in which metallic ores or crystallized minerals are found; the gangue

5. (noun) matrix
the five simple colors, black, white, blue, red, and yellow, of which all the rest are composed

6. (noun) matrix
the lifeless portion of tissue, either animal or vegetable, situated between the cells; the intercellular substance

7. (noun) matrix
a rectangular arrangement of symbols in rows and columns. The symbols may express quantities or operations

Definitions of 'matrix'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. matrix
[FidoNet]

1. What the Opus BBS software and sysops call FidoNet.

2. Fanciful term for a cyberspace expected to emerge from current networking experiments (see the network). The name of the rather good 1999 cypherpunk movie The Matrix played on this sense, which however had been established for years before.

3. The totality of present-day computer networks (popularized in this sense by John Quarterman; rare outside academic literature).

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