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Usage examples of matrix.

I discovered that the exoskeleton was an organic-inorganic matrix composed of carbon compounds and silicate minerals, primarily olivine, pyroxene, and magnetite, substances commonly found in meteorites.

There are matrices of paths meant to contain the Laws, which stand astride all the volitional areas of the gravitonic brain.

The results of those choices would gradually embed themselves in the Law matrices, and thus write themselves in as the product of his own action.

We were very careful about designing the matrices, about the whole process.

Giz explained to me a bit about the matrices, she said they were keyed to individuals.

So she constructed this maze of a building, but the most devious and clever thing she did was to hide a number of large matrices at all the entrances.

Our foes are just as fearful as we are, and by activating the guarding matrices at the entrances, we can enlarge the fears of our enemies, whatever they might be, can we not?

And, really, he had nothing to do except use the Alton Gift to channel all this wonderful energy into the large matrices above the entrance.

You can always make a correction in a line if you make it before you push the lever that sends in the line of matrices to cast the slug.

I--well, anyway, the channels that the matrices run in must be tremendous.

Trap matrices are not unknown in our history, but no one has used them in decades.

She knew it involved using matrices, and she found even the thought of them unnerving.

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

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.