The Matrix
ma·trix (mtrks)
n., pl. ma·tri·ces (mtr-sz, mtr-) or ma·trix·es.
1.A situation or surrounding substance within which something else originates, develops, or is contained:
"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every form of freedom" (Benjamin N. Cardozo).
2.The womb.
3.Anatomy.
a.The formative cells or tissue of a fingernail, toenail, or tooth.
b.See ground substance (n., sense 1).
4.Geology.
a.The solid matter in which a fossil or crystal is embedded.
b.Groundmass.
5.A mold or die.
6.The principal metal in an alloy, as the iron in steel.
7.A binding substance, as cement in concrete.
8.Mathematics.
a.A rectangular array of numeric or algebraic quantities subject to mathematical operations.
b.Something resembling such an array, as in the regular formation of elements into columns and rows.
9.Computer Science.
The network of intersections between input and output leads in a computer, functioning as an encoder or a decoder.
10.Printing.
a.A mold used in stereotyping and designed to receive positive impressions of type or illustrations from which metal plates can be cast. Also called mat2.
b.A metal plate used for casting typefaces.
11.An electroplated impression of a phonograph record used to make duplicate records.
[Middle English matrice, from Old French from Late Latin mtrx, mtrc- from Latin breeding-animal, from mter, mtr- mother; see mter- in Indo-European Roots.]
mter-
Important derivatives are: mother1, maternal, maternity, matriculate, matrix, matron, matrimony, metropolis, material, matter.
Mother.
Based ultimately on the baby-talk form m-2, with the kinship term suffix *-ter-.
1.
a.mother1, from Old English mdor, mother;
b.mother2, from Middle Dutch moeder, mother. Both a and b from Germanic *mdar-.
2.mater, maternal, maternity, (matriculate), matrix, matron; madrepore, matrimony, from Latin m
ter, mother.
3.metro-; metropolis, from Greek mtr, mother.
4.material, matter, from Latin mteris, mteria, tree trunk (< “matrix,” the tree's source of
growth), hence hard timber used in carpentry, hence (by a calque on Greek hul, wood, matter) substance,
stuff, matter.
5.Demeter, from Greek compound Dmtr, name of the goddess of produce, especially cereal crops
(d-, possibly meaning “earth”).
[Pokorny mter- 700.]
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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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.
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]
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).
They are now making two sequels to Matrix - hopefully they will not do what many sequels have a tendency to do: destroy the original...
This is a great movie. The soundtrack isn't that bad either:
1. Marilyn Manson - Rock Is Dead
2. Propellerheads - Spybreak! (short one)
3. Ministry - Bad Blood
4. Rob D - Clubbed To Death (kurayamino mix)
5. Meat Beat Manifesto - Prime Audio Soup
6. Lunatic Calm - Leave You Far Behind
7. Prodigy - Mindfields
8. Rob Zombie - Dragula (hot rod herman remix)
9. Deftones - My Own Summer (show it)
10. Hive - Ultrasonic Sound
11. Monster Magnet - Look To Your Orb For The Warning
12. Rammstein - Du Hast
13. Rage Against The Machine - Wake Up
