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The term "matrix" is employed in literature with great versatility, serving as a bridge between the physical and the abstract. In certain works, it denotes a foundational substance or medium from which form and life emerge—for instance, it appears as a womb or essential framework that nurtures development ([1], [2], [3]). Other texts extend the meaning metaphorically to describe the intricate interplay of components within a system, emphasizing how each element contributes to an all-encompassing unity ([4], [5]). Moreover, the word is also used to represent environments or networks that shape ideas and identities, whether referring to the social fabric of informal education ([6], [7]) or to modern digital connections ([8], [9]). Through these various applications, "matrix" encapsulates both a material and a symbolic substrate that underpins and unifies diverse constituents.
  1. Sow’s womb, matrix, udder, belly, ℞ 59 , 172 , 251-8 Soyer, Alexis, chef, 35 Sparrow, see PASSER Spätzli, ℞ 247 Spelt, ℞ 58-9 Spengler, O., writer, p.
    — from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
  2. Matríce, the matrix or wombe of a woman wherein she conceiueth.
    — from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio
  3. [pg 589] matrix, the model of the physical body in which the child is formed and developed.
    — from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
  4. The matrix and the items, each with all, make a unity, simply because each in truth is all the rest.
    — from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
  5. These were all so strongly attached, that it required as much force to separate them from the matrix "as to break a fragment off any hard rock."
    — from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
  6. In what we have termed informal education, subject matter is carried directly in the matrix of social intercourse.
    — from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey
  7. So much for the umbilical cord that unites every living post-rational system to the matrix of human hopes.
    — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
  8. cc:Mail gateways ———————— Many Local Area Networks have been connected to the global Matrix of networks.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  9. | While the global matrix of networks grows rapidly, it is still behind in some lesser-developed nations and poorer parts of developed nations.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno

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