mathematics A rectangular array of quantities or expressions set out by rows and columns; treated as a single element and manipulated according to rules.

Roget 591: printing; block printing, type-printing; plate printing etc. 558 (engraving); the press etc. (publication) 531; composition.    print, letterpress, text; context, note, page, column.    typography; stereotype, electrotype, aprotype^†; type, black letter, font, fount; pi, pie; capitals etc. (letters) 561; brevier^†, bourgeois, pica boldface &c., capitals, caps.   , catchword; composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick; italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype; lower case, upper case; make-up, matrix, matter, monotype^†; [point system], 4-1/2 point, 5 point, 5-1/2 point, 6 point, 7 point, 8 point, press room, press work; reglet^†, roman; running head, running title; scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay.    folio etc. (book) 593; copy, impression, pull, proof, revise; author's proof, galley proof, press proof; press revise.    printer, compositor, reader; printer's devil copyholder.    ... show more

Roget 691: workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of business; manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory; cabinet, studio; office, branch office bureau, atelier.    [specific types of workplace: list], hive, hive of industry; nursery; hothouse, hotbed; kitchen; mint, forge, loom; dock, dockyard; alveary^†; armory; laboratory, lab, research institute; refinery; cannery; power plant; beauty parlor; beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery^†, usine^†, slip, yard, wharf; foundry, foundery^†; furnace; vineyard; crucible, alembic, caldron, matrix.    ... show more

Roget 22: prototype, original, model, pattern, precedent, standard, ideal, reference, scantling, type; archetype, antitype^†; protoplast, module, exemplar, example, ensample^†, paradigm; lay-figure.    text, copy, design; fugleman^†, keynote.    die, mold; matrix, last, plasm^†; proplasm^†, protoplasm; mint; seal, punch, intaglio, negative; stamp.    ... show more

Polish: macierz

geology A mass of fine-grained rock in which fossils, crystals, or gems are embedded.

An enclosure within which something originates or develops (from the Latin for womb).

Dutch: voedingsbodem

The body substance in which tissue cells are embedded.

synonyms: ground substance, intercellular substance.

Dutch: matrix
Polish: istota międzykomórkowa, substancja międzykomórkowa, macierz pozakomórkowa, substancja pozakomórkowa, substancja interstycjalna

The formative tissue at the base of a nail.

Mold used in the production of phonograph records, type, or other relief surface.

Polish: matryca