单词 | matrical |
释义 | matricaladj. 1. Of or relating to the womb. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [adjective] > womb wombedc1325 matrical1611 uterine1646 utricular1827 hysterocystic1833 interuteroplacental1850 perimetrial1858 perimetritic1863 parametric1883 perimetric1883 matricular1896 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vertiller, to swell, or increase, as womens breasts doe when the matricall veins are stretched by the menstruall blood. 1651 J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul sig. E8v They are presently filled with the suddaine and violent motions of the matricall humours. 1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Oct. 1204/5 The troubles of 1968 in which the wretched École des Beaux-Arts was to play such a matrical (or germinal) role. 2. Biology. Relating to a matrix (matrix n. 3b). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > [adjective] > of or characterized by parts globuliferous1781 siphoneous1858 maternal1874 matrical1882 trichosporangial1887 nemathecial1890 trichophoric1891 siphonous1960 1882–4 M. C. Cooke Brit. Fresh-water Algæ 56 Composed of very numerous cells arranged on the periphery at regular distances, connected by the matrical gelatin. 1903 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 163 The nutrition of the cartilage is probably effected by impenetration of fluids along the fine bundles of fibres which in this way come to stand out clearly amid the matrical substance. 1984 Toxicol. & Appl. Pharmacol. 76 150 Ultrastructural changes included mitochondrial swelling associated with matrical inclusions, further dilation and vesiculation of rough endoplasmic reticulum [etc.]. 3. Mathematics. = matric adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [adjective] > of array > relating to matrices unitary1891 matrical1900 matric1921 matricial1924 1900 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 1 180 For each of the seven operators used, its matrical equation as a transformer of point-loci is identified with its matrical equation as a transformer of line-loci. 1964 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 111 128 Now let M be the closed span of the entries in all conjugates U of irreducible finite dimensional unitary (matrical) representations U in A1 with U outside A2. 1989 Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 105 974 We compute this limit in each matrical coordinate (ij). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1611 |
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