Phrase Hound found 46 phrases and 15 compound words that contain matrices. The most common are listed below. Open matrices in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 46
- defective matricesplural of defective matrix: A square (n×n) matrix that has fewer than n linearly independent eigenvectors, and is therefore not diagonalisable.
- density matricesplural of density matrix: A matrix that describes the quantum state of a physical system.
- diagonal matricesplural of diagonal matrix: A matrix in which the entries outside the main diagonal are all zero.
- identity matricesplural of identity matrix: A diagonal matrix all of whose diagonal elements are equal to 1.
- inverse matricesplural of inverse matrix: Of a matrix A, another matrix B such that A multiplied by B and B multiplied by A both equal the identity matrix.
- singular matricesplural of singular matrix: A square matrix which is not invertible.
- square matricesplural of square matrix: A matrix having the same number of rows as columns.
- transformation matricesplural of transformation matrix: A matrix (of dimension n×m) that represents some linear transformation from ℝᵐ→ℝⁿ.
- symmetric matricesplural of symmetric matrix: A square matrix that is its own transpose, and is thereby symmetric about the main diagonal
- stochastic matricesplural of stochastic matrix: A matrix having the property that the entries in each column are non-negative, real and sum to 1.
- extracellular matricesplural of extracellular matrix: All the microscopic fibres and other molecular structures that are produced by a particular type of cell but are not part of it (that is, that lie outside its cell membrane), providing support to the cells …
- unitary matricesplural of unitary matrix: A matrix which when multiplied by its conjugate transpose yields the identity matrix.
- Pauli matricesplural of Pauli matrix: Any one of three complex matrices that arise in Wolfgang Pauli's treatment of spin in quantum mechanics.
- Hessian matricesplural of Hessian matrix: The square matrix of second-order partial derivatives of a scalar-valued function. It describes the local curvature of a function of many variables.
- Hermitian matricesplural of Hermitian matrix: A square matrix A with complex entries that is equal to its own conjugate transpose, i.e., such that A=A^†.
- invertible matricesplural of invertible matrix: Any n×n square matrix for which there exists a corresponding inverse matrix (i.e., a second (or possibly the same) matrix such that when the two are multiplied by each other, in either order, the result is the …
- skew-symmetric matricesplural of skew-symmetric matrix: A square matrix equal to the negative of its transpose.
- Toeplitz matricesplural of Toeplitz matrix: A matrix in which each descending diagonal from left to right is constant.
- Hankel matricesplural of Hankel matrix: A square matrix with constant skew-diagonals (positive sloping diagonals).
- active matricesplural of active matrix: A form of liquid crystal display with a grid of transistors and capacitors that can hold a charge for a limited period of time, contrasted with passive matrix.
- conference matricesplural of conference matrix: A square matrix C with 0 on the diagonal and +1 and −1 off the diagonal, such that CᵀC is a multiple of the identity matrix I.
- dot matricesplural of dot matrix: A two-dimensional array or pattern of dots used (for example, by a display device or a printer) to represent alphanumeric characters and pictures.
- geological matricesplural of geological matrix: The fine-grained background material in which crystals, pebbles or fossils are embedded in a sedimentary rock
- incidence matricesplural of incidence matrix: A matrix showing the relationship between two classes of objects.
- interaction matricesplural of interaction matrix: A simple diagram, equivalent to an adjacency matrix in graph theory, used to model the structure of complex systems or projects.
Compound words 15
- submatricesplural of submatrix: A matrix formed by selecting certain rows and columns from a larger matrix.
- animatricesplural of animatrice: A woman who is trained to teach skills and lead activities for her peers.
- biomatricesplural of biomatrix: A biological or biochemical matrix (set of interacting systems)
- cytomatricesplural of cytomatrix: A matrix of cells
- datamatricesplural of datamatrix: A two-dimensional barcode
- hypermatricesplural of hypermatrix: A generalization of a matrix to a multidimensional array
- nanomatricesplural of nanomatrix: A nanoscale matrix
- neuromatricesplural of neuromatrix: A hypothetical network of interconnecting neural structures, introduced as a way to explain phantom limb sensations.
- perimatricesplural of perimatrix: The area surrounding a matrix
- semimatricesplural of semimatrix: One half of a matrix