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Matrices

matrix \ma"trix\ (m[=a]"tr[i^]ks), n.; pl. Matrices (m[a^]t"r[i^]*s[=e]z). [L., fr. mater mother. See Mother, and cf. Matrice.]

  1. (Anat.) The womb.

    All that openeth the matrix is mine.
    --Ex. xxxiv. 19.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wiktionary
matrices

n. (plural of matrix English)

WordNet
matrix
  1. n. a rectangular array of elements (or entries) set out by rows and columns

  2. an enclosure within which something originates or develops (from the Latin for womb)

  3. the body substance in which tissue cells are embedded [syn: intercellular substance, ground substance]

  4. the formative tissue at the base of a nail

  5. mold used in the production of phonograph records, type, or other relief surface

  6. [also: matrices (pl)]

matrices

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Usage examples of "matrices".

Outside the actual Tower, away from the energies of the matrices, her illness abated.

I felt like I was being stabbed at every second, and I hated the feeling of the matrices around me.

We ate freshly baked bread and drank hot spiced cider, while I pondered what she had said about matrices for generating power.

He should be playing with button-sized matrices, not working seriously in a circle like this!

There were old traditions about matrices like this, installed in weapons.

They came out of the Ages of Chaos, when, it is said, everything it's possible to know about matrices was known, and our world nearly destroyed in consequence.

Although emotional upheavals were common enough when first keying into one of the really big matrices, such frightful blowups as this between Beltran and Thyra were not common.

He had heard stories of out-of-control matrices, most of them from the Ages of Chaos, but some more recent.

With that many matrices available, I might even fix what Paskutti smashed in the shuttle -- at least for planetary use.

His hands found the real treasures: eight matrices, still in a film coating which even the purple fungus had been unable to penetrate, five tiny separators, several dozen stun-capsules, and another wrist unit.

Assisted by Varian and Lunzie, Portegin gathered the matrices removed from the other two small sleds and the undamaged units in the shuttle.

She swept over matrices of data and guided them to the ship's processors, choosing and resolving the ever-changing paths to Singularity with an athlete's single-minded concentration.

Space and time twisted and reformed about her as she chose their path through continually changing matrices of transformations.

Margaret was sure, somewhere in her mind, that if she were only strong enough, she could get over her profound aversion to the matrices, and be able to sit with Dio.

I cannot sit in a Tower circle because being in a room with lots of matrices is still impossible for me.