matrix

• n. [數] 矩陣；模型；[生物][地質] 基質；母體；子宮；[地質] 脈石

來自拉丁語matrix,子宮，母體，來自mater,母親。引申詞義社會環境，並用於指科學術語矩陣。見電影《黑客帝國》。

matrix

matrix: see madrigal

matrix (n.)

late 14c., "uterus, womb," from Old French matrice "womb, uterus," from Latin matrix (genitive matricis) "pregnant animal," in Late Latin "womb," also "source, origin," from mater (genitive matris) "mother" (see mother (n.1)). Sense of "place or medium where something is developed" is first recorded 1550s; sense of "embedding or enclosing mass" first recorded 1640s. Logical sense of "array of possible combinations of truth-values" is attested from 1914. As a verb from 1951.

1. the European cultural matrix

歐洲文化的發源地

來自《權威詞典》

2. Rome was the matrix of Western civilization.

羅馬是西方文明之母.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

3. We now omit the prime on the matrix elements.

我們現在把各矩陣元素上的一撇略去.

來自辭典例句

4. Interconnection of programming function is carried out on a matrix board.

各種編程功能之間相互銜接在矩陣板上進行.

來自辭典例句

5. The matrix is defined as the reciprocal of A.

該矩陣定義為A之逆矩陣.

來自辭典例句