Definitions for matrix
matrix
ma·trix
Spelling: [mey-triks, ma-]
IPA: /ˈmeɪ trɪks, ˈmæ-/
Matrix is a 6 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 101 anagrams from letters in matrix (aimrtx).
Definitions for matrix
noun
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something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops:
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Anatomy. a formative part, as the corium beneath a nail.
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Biology.
the intercellular substance of a tissue.
ground substance.
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Petrology. the fine-grained portion of a rock in which coarser crystals or rock fragments are embedded.
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fine material, as cement, in which lumps of coarser material, as of an aggregate, are embedded.
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Mining. gangue.
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Metallurgy. a crystalline phase in an alloy in which other phases are embedded.
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Printing. a mold for casting typefaces.
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master (def 18).
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Digital Technology. a grid formed by perpendicular intersections that define potential space that may be filled, as by pixels on a screen, ink in dot-matrix printing, or material in 3D printing.
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(in a press or stamping machine) a multiple die or perforated block on which the material to be formed is placed.
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Mathematics. a rectangular array of numbers, algebraic symbols, or mathematical functions, especially when such arrays are added and multiplied according to certain rules.
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Linguistics. a rectangular display of features characterizing a set of linguistic items, especially phonemes, usually presented as a set of columns of plus or minus signs specifying the presence or absence of each feature for each item.
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Also called master. a mold made by electroforming from a disk recording, from which other disks may be pressed.
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Archaic. the womb.
Origin of matrix
1325-75; Middle English matris, matrix Latin mātrix female animal kept for breeding (Late Latin: register, orig. of such beasts), parent stem (of plants), derivative of māter mother
Examples for matrix
Just like Fight Club or The matrix, the wave of revolutionary protest-battles also has a mindblowing ending.
To find any fault with the matrix of this opal is probably blasphemous.
You can never detach an experience from its matrix and weigh it alone.
This is a sort of mother religion—the matrix from which all sects and creeds are born.
Is this not astonishing enough for Kaku that he has to resort to Star Trek references and discussions of the matrix?
So we sneaked The matrix and the movie they gave us after was 10 Things I Hate About You.
Every environment leaves the stamp of its matrix on the individual shaped in it.
There was the groundbreaking action/science-fiction franchise-maker, The matrix.
Which is why the matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.
It is not surprising that science should find its matrix in so rich a civilization.