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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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... tells us it must have been developed. All this proves that the similarities in question did not come from Phoenicians having accidentally visited the shores of America, but that we have before us the origin, the source, the very matrix in which the Phoenician alphabet was formed. In the light of such a discovery the inscriptions upon the monuments of Central America assume incalculable importance; they take us back to a civilization far anterior to the oldest known in Europe; ...
— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly

... Mantram, or what you consider magical spell. In one aspect the notion is of magical words that can manipulate natural forces directly. The notion of a devil doll is a little closer. Only instead of actual substance from the subject—hair, fingernail parings, and so on—the Mantram matrix takes the detailed force pattern of the subject, through the lens when it forms. So, in your concepts, what results is an iconic Mantram. But it operates both ways. You'll see ...
— The Gallery • Roger Phillips Graham

... like a harlequin suit, girdled at the waist by the blue ribbon of 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 solemnly ...
— Madcap • George Gibbs

... hint at a depth and largeness which he has never given rein to in any play he has thus far written. The consequence is, when he aimed at mental effect, the result was nearly always pompous, as when Dr. Seelig, in "As a Man Thinks," tries to explain the psychological matrix of the piece, and as when Jack Brookfield, in "The Witching Hour," explains the basis of telepathy. But when he aimed nowhere, yet gave us living, breathing flashes of character, as dominate "The Other Girl" and are typified in the small role of Lew Ellinger, in "The Witching Hour," Thomas ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: In Mizzoura • Augustus Thomas

... spade, and directed to apply it to a place where a digger's quick eye had detected one speck of gold. There was probably, he said, a string of gold behind it. And so it proved, for out of about a pound weight of matrix which I removed on the corner of the spade, I picked out 7 shillings and 6 pence worth ...
— Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne & Victoria • William Westgarth


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