matrix

Etymology
From, , , from , or from , both ultimately from. from Indo-European ancestor.

Slang usage coined with the 1999 sci-fi action film The Matrix.

Noun

 * 1) The cavity or mold in which anything is formed.
 * 2)  The womb.
 * 3) The metaphorical place where something is made, formed, or given birth.
 * 4)  The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded.
 * 5)  An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants.
 * 6)  Part of the mitochondrion.
 * 7)  The medium in which bacteria are cultured.
 * 8) A table of data.
 * 9)  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.
 * 10) * 2007, Gerhard Kloos, Matrix Methods for Optical Layout,, page 25,
 * The matrix describing the reflection at a plane mirror can be obtained by taking the matrix for reflection at a spherical reflector and letting the radius of the spherical mirror tend to infinity.
 * 1)  A two-dimensional array.
 * 2)  ; a controlled environment or situation in which people behave in ways that conform to pre-determined roles.
 * 3)  A grid-like arrangement of electronic components, especially one intended for information coding, decoding or storage.
 * 4)  A geological matrix.
 * 5)  The sediment surrounding and including the artifacts, features, and other materials at a site.
 * 6)  The environment from which a given sample is taken.
 * 7)   In hot metal typesetting, a mold for casting a letter.
 * 8)  In printmaking, the plate or block used, with ink, to hold the image that makes up the print.
 * 9)  The five simple colours (black, white, blue, red, and yellow) from which all the others are formed.
 * 10)  A binding agent of composite materials, e.g. resin in fibreglass.
 * 1)  A geological matrix.
 * 2)  The sediment surrounding and including the artifacts, features, and other materials at a site.
 * 3)  The environment from which a given sample is taken.
 * 4)   In hot metal typesetting, a mold for casting a letter.
 * 5)  In printmaking, the plate or block used, with ink, to hold the image that makes up the print.
 * 6)  The five simple colours (black, white, blue, red, and yellow) from which all the others are formed.
 * 7)  A binding agent of composite materials, e.g. resin in fibreglass.
 * 1)  The environment from which a given sample is taken.
 * 2)   In hot metal typesetting, a mold for casting a letter.
 * 3)  In printmaking, the plate or block used, with ink, to hold the image that makes up the print.
 * 4)  The five simple colours (black, white, blue, red, and yellow) from which all the others are formed.
 * 5)  A binding agent of composite materials, e.g. resin in fibreglass.
 * 1)  A binding agent of composite materials, e.g. resin in fibreglass.

Translations

 * Finnish: matriksi,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ма̏трикс
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: matriksi, soluväliaine
 * French:
 * Greek: μεσοκυττάρια ουσία
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: matriksi
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic:
 * Maori: anga ā-roto
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: matriz mitocondrial


 * Finnish: matriksi, viljelyaine
 * Icelandic: uppistöðuefni
 * Italian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: bakterijska podloga


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مَصْفُوفَة
 * Armenian: մատրից,
 * Azerbaijani: matris
 * Belarusian: ма́трыца
 * Bulgarian: матри́ца
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: matrix
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: matrico
 * Estonian: maatriks
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მატრიცა
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: матрица
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 행렬(行列)
 * Kyrgyz: матрица
 * Lao: ມາຕຣິກ
 * Latvian: matrica
 * Lithuanian: matrica
 * Macedonian: матрица
 * Malay:
 * Maori: poukapa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: matrise
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: матрѝца
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: matrika,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: baskagan
 * Tajik: матритса
 * Telugu: మాత్రిక
 * Thai: เมทริกซ์
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ма́триця
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: matrico
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic: innrúm
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 행렬(行列)
 * Maori: poukapa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: matrise
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: матрѝца
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: ма́триця


 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian: матри́ца
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Russian:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * Icelandic:, afsteypumót
 * Italian:
 * Russian:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:


 * German:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: ма́триця


 * Bulgarian: матри́ца
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: ма́триця


 * German:


 * Irish:
 * Romanian:
 * Slovak:

Etymology
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Related terms

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Noun

 * 1)  matrix

Etymology
Ultimately from. Cognate with.

Noun

 * 1)   type of array

Etymology
From, with.

Noun

 * 1) uterus, womb
 * 2) dam
 * 3) source, origin
 * 4) list, register

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1)  Matrix

Etymology 2
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Noun

 * 1) low-melting alloy of bismuth with lead (28–29%), tin (14–15%), and antimony (8.5–10.5%)

Noun

 * 1)  intercellular substance,

Noun

 * 1) Matrix
 * 2) fictional machine system
 * 3) any illusory system