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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Matrix \Ma"trix\, n.; pl {Matrices}. [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: 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. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: matrix n 1: a rectangular array of elements 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: used in the production of phonograph records, type or other relief surface From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: Matrix n. [FidoNet] 1. What the Opus BBS software and sysops call {FidoNet}. 2. Fanciful term for a {cyberspace} expected to emerge from current networking experiments (see {the network}). The name of the rather good 1999 {cypherpunk} movie "The Matrix" played on this sense which however had been established for years before 3. The totality of present-day computer networks (popularized in this sense by John Quarterman rare outside academic literature). From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: Matrix [FidoNet] 1. What the Opus BBS software and sysops call {FidoNet}. 2. Fanciful term for a {cyberspace} expected to emerge from current networking experiments (see {network, the}). 3. The totality of present-day computer networks. [{Jargon File}]
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