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noun

matrix n. (pl. matrices)

(Anat.) The womb. "All that openeth the matrix is mine."

Hence: That which gives form or origin to anything; as:

(a)

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

(b)

(Min.) The earthy or stony substance in which metallic ores or crystallized minerals are found; the gangue.

(c)

pl. (Dyeing) The five simple colors, black, white, blue, red, and yellow, of which all the rest are composed.

(Biol.) The lifeless portion of tissue, either animal or vegetable, situated between the cells; the intercellular substance.

(Math.) A rectangular arrangement of symbols in rows and columns. The symbols may express quantities or operations.

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Etymology of 'Matrix'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Matrix" Quotes from Famous Books

... that severity of manner that so frequently affirms an uncompromising devotion to duty, and conceals a warm and affectionate disposition. He was of the iron of which martyrs are made, but in the heart of the matrix had lurked a nobler metal, fusible at a milder heat, yet never coloring nor softening the hard exterior. By both heredity and environment something of the man's inflexible character had touched the other members of the family; ...

— Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories • Ambrose Bierce

... as Sir Sydney Olivier says, "a matrix of emotional and spiritual energies that have yet to find their human expression," the African negro has obviously already not a few valuable ethnic elements—joy of life, love of colour, keen senses, beautiful voice, and ear for music—contributions ...

— The Melting-Pot • Israel Zangwill

... inverted cone, and punctured on the top with little cavities or cells, in which the seeds grow. The orifices of these cells being too small to let the seeds drop out when ripe, they shoot forth into new plants, in the places where they were formed, the bulb of the vessel serving as a matrix to nourish them until they acquire such a degree of magnitude as to burst it open and release themselves, after which, like other aquatic weeds, they take root wherever the current deposits them. This plant, therefore, being thus productive of itself, and vegetating from its own matrix, without ...

— The God-Idea of the Ancients - or Sex in Religion • Eliza Burt Gamble

... minds. The botanist and the geologist always find the nature of the strata indicative of its productions; the meagre light herbage announces the poverty of the soil it covers, while the luxuriant growth of plants betrays the richness of the matrix in which the roots are fixed. It is scarcely reasoning by analogy to apply this operating principle of nature to the ...

— Literary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions • Isaac D'Israeli

... the little mirror which was attached to the long chain of turquoise matrix about her neck: and Jurgen studied the frightened foolish aged face that he ...

— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell

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