From an impression taken direct from thematrix in the Church.
The facets of the octagon are perfectly plain, but there is an oblong incision in one of them which looks very much like the matrix of a brass, or the seat of a sculptured panel, which has been removed.
For delicate specimens it is wise to leave a good margin of the matrix round the specimen, and to do the final clearing with a thin-bladed penknife, taking away small flakes of the stone with delicate taps on the handle of the knife.
In the matrix of the best-preserved fossils are always minute crystals and granules that may simulate bacterial shapes perfectly.
For specimens of casts the same treatment generally applies, though they are more apt to separate completely from the matrix after one or two sharp blows, and thus save one the work of picking out the details of their structure.
The matrix contains lime as is seen in the large amount of calcite that exists.
One of these is characterized by the fact that the intercellular substance or matrix assumes a more or less rigid character--it may be infiltrated with salts of lime--giving rise to the supporting tissues of the skeletal system.
Neither will stereotype metal poured by gravity against a paper matrix mold be as sharp and deep as copper deposited electrolytically on a wax mold.
Aluminotypes will not mash under the pressure of the matrix press, as they are much harder than electrotypes.
Upon thismatrix they would pour molten lead or tin and by the aid of a roller, press the fused metal evenly so as to make it penetrate into all the hollows and corners of the letters.
The matrix thus dried out to a thick, flexible cardboard is then ready for the casting of the stereotype, which is done by pouring molten stereotype metal against the face of the matrix placed in a casting-box designed for this purpose.
After the matrix had been made this way, the type were cast, which was done, not by pouring metal into the matrix, but by pressing the latter into semi-fused metal.
In this way a great many letters could be cast from one matrix without any injury to it.
After locking up a page form, it can be molded, the matrix dried and the plate cast and ready for the press in about ten minutes.
When the plaster mold has become sufficiently dried, a round hole is cut through the bottom of the matrix in an offset of the molding frame.
After the plaster matrix in its molding frame has set sufficiently it is released by means of cams from the working pattern on the molding-slab.
When the plaster became solid, it formed a perfect matrix of the type pages.
The first mode is somewhat complex, but the matrix would have a smooth surface and need no further adjustment.
The plastermatrix is then placed in a drying oven, through which a forced draft of hot air is kept circulating at high pressure.
As soon as the first matrix has escaped, the escapement resumes its original position, the upper pawl falling, while the lower one rises so as to hold the second matrix, which assumes the position previously occupied by the one released.
Each matrix is held in suspension until it arrives over its proper channel, where for the first time its teeth bear such relation to those of the bar that it is released and permitted to fall into the magazine.
After the matrix line is composed, it is automatically transferred to the face of a slotted mold into which molten type-metal is delivered to form a slug or linotype against the matrices.
In the great recess in the north transept there is placed against the wall, lozenge-wise, the matrix of a brass of several figures.
To the east of the crossing is the matrix of a fine brass, of a bishop in full robes with mitre and crosier, with two shields of arms on each side of the figure.
The matrixthat Mr. Spence especially described in the south transept is evidently the one that still remains there.
They thought of the sun of heaven as impregnating this virgin matrix with the seeds of cosmic life--quite an accurate conception from the modern point of view.
The religious mind came to regard the physical, mundane, or distinctively human principle as the matrix upon which the spirit of God brooded, bringing to the birth a divine idea.
A brass matrix has fallen into my hands of a period certainly not much anterior to the Revolution.
I was struck with the difference between this rock and a breccia at Epinal, in France, where the matrix was a red sandstone, like that of the cathedral at Basle.
So much for the umbilical cord that unites every living post-rational system to the matrix of human hopes.
Nevertheless, such a matrix or cradle for reason belongs only externally to its life.
The stones are usually imbedded in a matrix of quartzose grit and sand, but sometimes this is very scanty.
Fragmental rocks are often quite indurated--the matrix being as hard as the included stones.
The product of the two matrices is about as different from the identity matrix as anything could be.
You multiply the inverted matrix by the original and you not only don't get zeros for all elements outside the diagonal, you get a haphazard assortment of ones and twos.
A kind of cartilage with a fibrousmatrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure.
A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.
One of the protoplasmic cells which occur in the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast.
The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.
In one of them is also a matrix for forming a smaller implement, the use of which is not easy to determine, while both the celts are large and elegant in form.
And the animalculists cannot perceive how a minute embryo of an ass could introduce its ears into the matrix of a mare.
For Malakoth, in the Kabalah, is female, and the matrix or womb out of which all creation is born.
Malakoth is female and the matrix out of which all creation is born, 769-m.
Earth, the matrix of the world; of beings engendered by the heavens, 668-l.
Underneath this layout was a more massive matrix of wires and relays,and crossbar switches than Peter Samson had ever dreamed existed.
When the Hoe machines were introduced, instead of dealing with the separate columns, the papier-mache matrix was taken from the whole page at one operation, by roller-presses constructed for the purpose.
The matrix and the items, each with all, make a unity, simply because each in truth is all the rest.
They have to be embedded in a matrix of sand by the founder, and being enclosed, they have to be withdrawn without inflicting any damage in the way of fracture in the sand.
The matrix and outside borders are of St. Just, whilst the inlaid portions are of various fancy coloured marbles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "matrix" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
