matrix

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Plot the data into a matrix.

Walking this gnarled shore one summer afternoon, I blundered upon a matrix of faint stone rectangles embedded in the tundra: vestiges of the monks' ancient dwellings, hundreds of years older, even, than the Anasazi ruins in Davis Gulch.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Then Halliday's ancient dot-matrix printer came to life and noisily ground out a single line of text.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

After completing a set of tedious and cumbersome matrix calculations, she blew on her hands to warm them, and picked up the latest issue of the Journal of Astrophysics to take a break.  (source) Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem, 2008

"Matrices," Strassnitzky answered.†  (source) Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War, 1991

You know, you get caught up in forms, in matrixes, in computer programs, and it just draws you in.†  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, 2005

He looked at Sophie's substitution matrix and slowly began to make the conversion.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

For it was now like walking among matrices of a great digital computer, the zeroes and ones twinned above, hanging like balanced mobiles right and left, ahead, thick, maybe endless.†  (source) Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, 1966

Blue Team had their databases and matrixes and methodologies for systematically understanding the intentions and capabilities of the enemy.†  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, 2005

Open boxes contain stacks of paper from old dot matrix printers, detailing the expenses and income of the Martin-Gale Mortgage Corp. On one of the desks, someone has stacked brochures for subdivisions into a single-story house of cards.  (source) John Green, Paper Towns, 2008

They were canopied, altar-shaped, and plain; their carvings being defaced and broken; their brasses torn from the matrices, the rivet-holes remaining like martin-holes in a sandcliff.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 1891

They acted with utter confidence, because their Operational Net Assessment matrixes told them where Red Team's vulnerabilities were, what Red Team's next move was likely to be, and what Red Team's range of options was.†  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, 2005

Each is a place where ley lines converge, forming a matrix—a sort of net within which magical spells are amplified.  (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls, 2012

It's not surprising given the social matrix of her upbringing.

The new men said they'd come from slave camps in the huge cities of Kobe, a matrix of war production, and Osaka, Japan's biggest port.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985

"You are yielding to the matrix, not to us," finished Jesus.  (source) William P. Young, The Shack, 2007

Your planet and people have formed the matrix of an organic computer running a ten-million-year research program….  (source) Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979

But his touch was fatal, and the something he gave her filled the matrix of her agony with death.  (source) Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, 1970

The smell is of our own flesh, an organic smell, sweat and a tinge of iron, from the blood on the sheet, and another smell, more animal, that's coming, it must be, from Janine: a smell of dens, of inhabited caves, the smell of the plaid blanket on the bed when the cat gave birth on it, once, before she was spayed. Smell of matrix.  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985

It is the matrix; a diabolical scheme in which you are hopelessly trapped even while completely unaware of its existence.  (source) William P. Young, The Shack, 2007

It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centers of the brain which has supplied them.  (source) Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979

The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.  (source) Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979

A computer that can calculate the Question to the Ultimate Answer, a computer of such infinite and subtle complexity that organic life itself shall form part of its operational matrix.  (source) Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979

You are a last generation product of that computer matrix, right, and you were there right up to the moment your planet got the finger, yeah?  (source) Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979

Other virtual worlds soon followed suit, from the Metaverse to the Matrix.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

Something nameless in the night, lode or matrix.  (source) Cormac McCarthy, The Road, 2006

The shell's a titanium matrix with silicon carbide fibers.  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

A gorgeous set of yellow topaz crystals on a gray matrix.  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

One of the most widely used intelligence tests is something called Raven's Progressive Matrices.  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, 2008

Huge fake rocks, made from a combo-matrix of recycled plastic bottles and plant material from giant tree cacti and various lithops — the living-stone members of the Mesembryanthemaceae — were dotted here and there.  (source) Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, 2003

Having a matrix of preferences presented as your essence, as the whole you?  (source) Dave Eggers, The Circle, 2013

The looped matrix at the edge of her doily, wonderfully intricate yet at the same time as precise and even, suddenly fell in disarray.  (source) Stephen King, Carrie, 1974

His laptop was propped open at the foot of the bed, frozen on a scene from The Matrix.  (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls, 2012

Ninety minutes above the river, I crested a broad ridge, passed a matrix of rock-walled yak corrals, and abruptly found myself in downtown Namche Bazaar, the social and commercial hub of Sherpa society.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, 1997

From the pockets I retrieved my wallet, the damp-but-amazingly-intact Oxycontin which I'd slipped into my pocket before the de Larmessin party (Did I ever think I'd be grateful for that hard time-release matrix?†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

Jones pressed a key to generate a copy on the adjacent matrix printer.†  (source) Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October, 1984

Day 75 Before leaving with Tuk, I went down to the matrix paddies to say goodbye to Semfa.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989