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matrix

/ˈmeɪtɹɪks/ · noun

Meaning

  1. The womb.
  2. The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded.
  3. An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants.
  4. Part of the mitochondrion.
  5. The medium in which bacteria are cultured.
  6. A rectangular arrangement of numbers or terms having various uses such as transforming coordinates in geometry, solving systems of linear equations in linear algebra and representing graphs in graph theory.

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Sources

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