matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪ.tɹɪks/
enpr: māʹtrĭks
ipa: /ˈmæt.ɹɪks/
enpr: mătʹrĭks
ipa: /ˈmæɪ.tɹɪks/
ipa: /mæːʈ.rɪks/
ipa: /mɛʈ.rɪks/
rhymes: -eɪtɹɪks
rhymes: -ætɹɪks
rhymes: -ɪks
Forms: form: matrices
form: matrixes
form: matrice
form: Matrix
Etymology: From Middle English matris, matrice, matrix, from Old French matrice (“pregnant animal”), or from Latin mātrīx (“dam, womb”), both ultimately from māter (“mother”). Doublet of mother from Indo-European ancestor.
Slang usage coined with the 1999 sci-fi action film The Matrix.
Senses: glosses: The cavity or mold in which anything is formed.
examples: text: upon conception the inward orifice of the matrix exactly closeth, so that it commonly admitteth nothing after […]
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Enquiries into Vulgar”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 122:
text: In very rare cases, when the matrix just goes on pegging away automatically, the doctor can take advantage of that and ease out the second brat who then can be considered to be, say, three minutes younger […]
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books, published 1970, →ISBN, part 2, page 269:
glosses: The womb.
examples: text: When it is remembered that ritual dancing was the matrix out of which the Drama sprang, and further that the drama in its inception (as still to-day in India) was an affair of religion and was acted in, or in connection with, the Temples, it becomes easier to understand how all this mass of ceremonial sacrifices, expiations, initiations, Sun and Nature festivals, eucharistic and orgiastic communions and celebrations, mystery-plays, dramatic representations, myths and legends, etc. [...] have practically sprung from the same root: a root deep and necessary in the psychology of Man.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 172:
glosses: The metaphorical place where something is made, formed, or given birth.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Part of the mitochondrion.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The medium in which bacteria are cultured.
glosses: A table of data.
examples: text: Theorem (7.5.2) then says that every positive semidefinite matrix is a convex combination of matrices that lie on extreme rays.
ref: 1987, [1985], Roger A. Horn, Charles R. Johnson, Matrix Analysis, Paperback edition, Cambridge University Press, published 1990, page 464:
text: Check that the #92;mathcal#123;A#125;(#92;mathcal#123;D#125;)² in the example is itself the adjacency matrix of the indicated digraph:
ref: 2003, Robert A. Liebler, Basic Matrix Algebra with Algorithms and Applications, CRC Press (Chapman & Hall/CRC), page 64:
text: 2007, Gerhard Kloos, Matrix Methods for Optical Layout, SPIE Press, 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.
text: The Fibonacci numbers have been widely studied, and the different ways to generate those numbers have gained continued interest, among them matrix methods [10], determinants [5], permanents [6], Pascal’s triangle [9], binomial coefficients [3], and many others [8]. […] In [1] two tridiagonal Toeplitz matrices were presented […]
ref: 2019 June 24, Juan Triana, “Negafibonacci Numbers via Matrices”, in Bulletin of TICMI, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2019, Introduction, page 1:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A two-dimensional array.
examples: text: He'd operated on an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of youth and proficiency, jacked into a custom cyberspace deck that projected his disembodied consciousness into the consensual hallucination that was the matrix.
ref: 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Mari Otsu, a 25-year-old Japanese-Hawaiian artist, tells me she was “desperately lonely” while she was studying at New York University, when she “realised that [she]^([sic]) was in the matrix”. I ask her what she means.
ref: 2023 October 28, Jemima Kelly, “Back to school”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 20:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Matrix; a controlled environment or situation in which people behave in ways that conform to pre-determined roles.
examples: text: Any type of core or diode matrix used to derive the decoding of these codes would amount to a rather large volume of terminals for just the 17,500 terminals alone.
ref: 1949, Proceedings of the Association of American Railroads:
text: The transistor matrix in the encoder supplies the sequential gates.
ref: 1959, John Millar Carroll, Modern Transistor Circuits:
text: A transistor-diode matrix is composed of vertical and horizontal wires with a transistor at each intersection.
ref: 1962, Burroughs Corporation, Digital Computer Principles:
text: Robot controllers range in complexity from simple stepping switches through pneumatic logic sequencers, diode matrix boards, electronic sequencers, and microprocessors to minicomputers.
ref: 1987, David Ardayfio, Fundamentals of Robotics:
text: Diode matrix is the most fundamental of all ROM structure.
ref: 2002, B. Somantathan Nair, Digital Electronics and Logic Design:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A grid-like arrangement of electronic components, especially one intended for information coding, decoding or storage.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A geological matrix.
topics: archaeology
biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: The sediment surrounding and including the artifacts, features, and other materials at a site.
qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: The environment from which a given sample is taken.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: In hot metal typesetting, a mold for casting a letter.
topics: media
printing
publishing
synonyms: printing form
glosses: In printmaking, the plate or block used, with ink, to hold the image that makes up the print.
topics: business
dyeing
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: The five simple colours (black, white, blue, red, and yellow) from which all the others are formed.
topics: science
sciences
glosses: A binding agent of composite materials, e.g. resin in fibreglass.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Matrix clause is a clause that has another (subordinate) clause embedded within it.
Synonyms: topics: mathematics
sciences
word: array
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: table
sense: table of data
word: array
sense: table of data
word: grid
sense: table of data
word: spreadsheet
sense: table of data
word: table
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: array
Hyponyms: active matrix
adjacency matrix
augmented matrix
biomatrix
Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix
Cartan matrix
CKM matrix
coefficient matrix
conference matrix
Coxeter matrix
data matrix
defective matrix
degenerate matrix
density matrix
diagonal matrix
dot matrix
eigenmatrix
elementary matrix
extracellular matrix
Fock matrix
geological matrix
germinal matrix
Hankel matrix
Hermitian matrix
Hessian matrix
identity matrix
incidence matrix
interaction matrix
inverse matrix
invertible matrix
Jacobian matrix
Jordan matrix
Laplacian matrix
mitochondrial matrix
nuclear matrix
null matrix
orthogonal matrix
Pauli matrix
Plücker matrix
polymatrix
projection matrix
right stochastic matrix
Rumsfeld matrix
singular matrix
skew-symmetric matrix
S-matrix
square matrix
stochastic matrix
symmetric matrix
symplectic matrix
territorial matrix
Toeplitz matrix
transfer matrix
transformation matrix
transition matrix
triangular matrix
Tutte matrix
unitary matrix
unit matrix
zero matrix
Derived terms: bimatrix
biomatrix
comatrix
cytomatrix
dot-matrix
dot matrix printer
hemimatrix
hypermatrix
impact matrix printer
intramatrix
matrician
matrisome
matrix algebra
matrix clause
matrix decomposition
matrix diagram
matrixectomy
matrixed
matrix group
matrixial
Matrixism
matrix isolation
matrix language
matrixlike
matrix management
matrix mechanics
matrix metalloproteinase
matrix mixer
matrix protein
matrixwise
matroid
multimatrix
nanomatrix
neuromatrix
nonmatrix
perimatrix
polymatrix
pro-matrix metalloproteinase
semimatrix
sociomatrix
submatrix
supermatrix
trimatrix
Related terms: alma mater
matriculate