matriculāˈtion noun

1. The act of matriculating
2. The state of being matriculated
3. An entrance examination (familiarly matricˈ)

matricˈulātor noun

matriculāˈtory adjective

matrix /māˈtriks or matˈriks/

1. The womb (obsolete)
2. The place in which anything is developed or formed
3. That in which anything is embedded, such as ground-mass, gangue, intercellular substance, cementing material
4. The bed on which a thing rests, such as the cutis under a nail, the hollow in a slab to receive a monumental brass
5. A mould, eg for casting printing type
6. A rectangular array of quantities or symbols (mathematics)
7. Any rectangular arrangement of data in rows and columns
8. A table published by the Bank of England, giving recommended levels of Third World debt provision for individual institutions (finance)

matric /mātˈ or matˈ/ adjective

Of, relating to, or having the properties of a matrix

matric potential noun (botany)

That component of the water potential of plants and soils that is due to the interaction of the water with colloids and to capillary forces

matrix printer noun

A printer attached to a computer which prints characters as a series of dots by firing pins against an inked ribbon (also dot matrix printer)