# Definition of Matrices. Meaning of Matrices. Synonyms of Matrices

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## Definition of Matrices

Matrices
Matrix Ma"trix, n.; pl. Matrices. [L., fr. mater mother. See Mother, and cf. Matrice.] 1. (Anat.) The womb. All that openeth the matrix is mine. --Ex. xxxiv. 19. 2. Hence, that which gives form or origin to anything; as: (a) (Mech.) The cavity in which anything is formed, and which gives it shape; a die; a mold, as for the face of a type. (b) (Min.) The earthy or stony substance in which metallic ores or crystallized minerals are found; the gangue. (c) pl. (Dyeing) The five simple colors, black, white, blue, red, and yellow, of which all the rest are composed. 3. (Biol.) The lifeless portion of tissue, either animal or vegetable, situated between the cells; the intercellular substance. 4. (Math.) A rectangular arrangement of symbols in rows and columns. The symbols may express quantities or operations.
Matrice
Matrice Ma"trice, n. [Cf. F. matrice. See Matrix.] See Matrix.

## Meaning of Matrices from wikipedia

- two matrices can be added or subtracted element by element (see conformable matrix). The rule for matrix multiplication, however, is that two matrices can...
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- In mathematical physics and mathematics, the Pauli matrices are a set of three 2 × 2 complex matrices which are Hermitian and unitary. Usually indicated...
- conventions: matrices are represented by capital letters in bold, e.g. A, vectors in lowercase bold, e.g. a, and entries of vectors and matrices are italic...
- gamma matrices, { γ 0 , γ 1 , γ 2 , γ 3 } {\displaystyle \{\gamma ^{0},\gamma ^{1},\gamma ^{2},\gamma ^{3}\}} , also known as the Dirac matrices, are a...
- set of matrices A 1 , … , A k {\displaystyle A_{1},\ldots ,A_{k}} is said to commute if they commute pairwise, meaning that every pair of matrices in the...
- page lists some important cl****es of matrices used in mathematics, science and engineering. A matrix (plural matrices, or less commonly matrixes) is a rectangular...
- Raven's Progressive Matrices (often referred to simply as Raven's Matrices) or RPM is a nonverbal group test typically used in educational settings. It...
- the complex plane will "almost never" be singular. Non-square matrices (m-by-n matrices for which m ≠ n) do not have an inverse. However, in some cases...
- Hermitian matrices are named after Charles Hermite, who demonstrated in 1855 that matrices of this form share a property with real symmetric matrices of always...