Sample Sentences for
matrix
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(editor-reviewed)

matrix as in:  arranged in a rectangular matrix

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The values are arranged in a 3x12 matrix.
matrix = an arrangement of numbers or elements into a grid of rows and columns
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    Plot the data into a matrix.
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    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)
    matrix = grid
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    Then Halliday's ancient dot-matrix printer came to life and noisily ground out a single line of text.  (source)
    matrix = related to a grid of dots
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    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)
    matrix = related to an arrangement of numbers into a grid of rows and columns
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    "Matrices," Strassnitzky answered.†  (source)
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    You know, you get caught up in forms, in matrixes, in computer programs, and it just draws you in.†  (source)
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    He looked at Sophie's substitution matrix and slowly began to make the conversion.  (source)
    matrix = grid (in this case, with 2 rows in which each column shows what letter to substitute for another letter)
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    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)
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    Blue Team had their databases and matrixes and methodologies for systematically understanding the intentions and capabilities of the enemy.†  (source)
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    Each is a place where ley lines converge, forming a matrix—a sort of net within which magical spells are amplified.  (source)
    matrix = grid (arrangement of elements that form a rectangle of rows and columns)
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    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)
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    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)
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    Tiles covered the dark, vaulted ceiling, and upon the tiles were painted angular patterns of red, blue, and gold: a complex matrix of lines that trapped her gaze for a mindless while.  (source)
    matrix = grid
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matrix as in:  the social matrix of the town

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Her early years at the Berkley shaped her worldview, forming the matrix of her ideology and subsequent work.
matrix = a set of conditions or environment in which something develops
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    It's not surprising given the social matrix of her upbringing.
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    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)
    matrix = environment
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    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)
    matrix = a set of conditions or environment in which something develops
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    Your planet and people have formed the matrix of an organic computer running a ten-million-year research program….  (source)
    matrix = a set of conditions or environment in which something develops
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    But his touch was fatal, and the something he gave her filled the matrix of her agony with death.  (source)
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    "You are yielding to the matrix, not to us," finished Jesus.  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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    It is the matrix; a diabolical scheme in which you are hopelessly trapped even while completely unaware of its existence.  (source)
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    The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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    Other virtual worlds soon followed suit, from the Metaverse to the Matrix.  (source)
    Matrix = movie title based upon an artificial environment in which something develops
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    A gorgeous set of yellow topaz crystals on a gray matrix.  (source)
    matrix = material in which crystal are embedded
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    Having a matrix of preferences presented as your essence, as the whole you?  (source)
    matrix = an ordered pattern
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    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)
    matrix = ordered pattern
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    One of the most widely used intelligence tests is something called Raven's Progressive Matrices.  (source)
    Matrices = related to an ordered arrangements of elements
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    Herds of puffy cumulus raced beneath the sun, imprinting the landscape with a shifting matrix of shadow and blinding light.  (source)
    matrix = pattern
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    His laptop was propped open at the foot of the bed, frozen on a scene from The Matrix.  (source)
    Matrix = movie title based upon an artificial environment in which something develops
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    Something nameless in the night, lode or matrix.  (source)
    matrix = environment or maze
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    The shell's a titanium matrix with silicon carbide fibers.  (source)
    matrix = main metal in an alloy
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    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)
    matrix = ordered arrangement
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    As her hands closed over the bag, a rune rose up behind her eyes—a matrix of lines and swirls, the whisper of an image that was gone as soon as she slid the Baggie into the pocket of her coat.  (source)
    matrix = pattern
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    I devoured each of what Halliday referred to as "The Holy Trilogies": Star Wars (original and prequel trilogies, in that order), Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Mad Max, Back to the Future, and Indiana Jones.  (source)
    Matrix = movie title based upon an artificial environment in which something develops
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    The branches of trees, the filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her father re-created in his models.  (source)
    matrix = ordered pattern
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