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.
雙語例句
1. the European cultural matrix
歐洲文化的發(fā)源地
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
2. Rome was the matrix of Western civilization.
羅馬是西方文明之母.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
3. We now omit the prime on the matrix elements.
我們現(xiàn)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.