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Matrix   /mˈeɪtrɪks/   Listen
Matrix

noun
(pl. matrices)
1.
(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.
(geology) amass of fine-grained rock in which fossils, crystals, or gems are embedded.
3.
An enclosure within which something originates or develops (from the Latin for womb).
4.
The body substance in which tissue cells are embedded.  Synonyms: ground substance, intercellular substance.
5.
The formative tissue at the base of a nail.
6.
Mold used in the production of phonograph records, type, or other relief surface.



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... specific forms, or again in the more perfect empirical knowledge of phenomena, the progress of myth and science go on together, and they are not only developed in a parallel direction, but the form becomes the covering, involucre, matrix, or, as I might say, the cotyledons, by means of which the latter is developed and nourished. Even in more rational science this faculty, and these elements, necessarily recur, since in every human conception ...
— Myth and Science - An Essay • Tito Vignoli

... rock, about 20 feet thick, as seen in St. Peter's Mount, in the suburbs of Maestricht, abounds in corals and Bryozoa, often detachable from the matrix; and these beds are succeeded by a soft yellowish limestone 50 feet thick, extensively quarried from time immemorial for building. The stone below is whiter, and contains occasional nodules of ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

... directly to the light under an original drawing, or even under a printed plan. So soon as the light has sufficiently acted, which may be seen by means of photometric bands equally transparent at the plate, all the bitumen not acted upon is dissolved. As it is a positive which has acted as matrix, the uncovered zinc indicates the design, and the ground remains coated with insoluble bitumen. The plate is then etched with a weak solution of nitric acid in water, and the lines of the design are thus slightly engraved; the surface is then re-coated with another ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 286 - June 25, 1881 • Various

... the river, a cap of green and purple where a clump of young oaks perched jauntily on the bald contour of the distant hilltop; above, a sky of blue flecked with saffron and silver like a turquoise matrix—against which the tall poplars marched in stately procession, their feathery tops nodding ...
— Madcap • George Gibbs

... weight, and to ascertain the proportion of silver that is mixed with the gold, no farther process of refining being done here. The weightiness of the gold, and the facility with which it forms an amalgam with the mercury, occasions it easily to part from the dross or earthy matters of the stone or matrix. This is a great advantage to the gold-miners, as they every day know what they get; but the silver-miners often do not know how much they get till two months after, owing to the tediousness of their operation, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 • Robert Kerr


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