matrix
/ˈmeɪtrɪks/
noun
- An environment or material in which something develops; a surrounding medium or structure.
- The city's cultural matrix includes museums, theaters, and galleries.
- The fossil was embedded in a rocky matrix.
- A supportive family provides a healthy matrix for a child's growth.
- A rectangular array of numbers, symbols, or expressions arranged in rows and columns, used in mathematics and computing.
- The computer program uses a matrix to store image pixel data.
- To solve the system of equations, we wrote the coefficients in a matrix.
- In linear algebra, students learn how to multiply one matrix by another.
- The set of conditions that surround and influence something; a context or framework.
- The decision was made within the matrix of existing laws.
- Her ideas emerged from the complex matrix of social and political forces.
- We need to understand the matrix of factors that led to the crisis.
verb
- To arrange or organize something into a matrix or grid-like structure.
- They matrixed the team members across different projects.
- The data was matrixed into a spreadsheet for analysis.
- The designer matrixed the images into a neat grid.