Meaning of matrician | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A female patrician; an upper class matriarch
2. A mathematician who studies matrices
3. A group or clan claiming matrilineal descent from a (usually legendary) female ancestor

Examples

“In the present state of society we need not go far to find many a man who would give all the waltzes and polkas that a matrician genius ever invented, and throw all the new-fangled flourishes upon piano and guitar into the bargain, for healthful breakfasts [...]”

“Instead, Bettina traces her lineage through "Foremother," whose oil portrait watches over the homestead; she is described as a "matrician" who "in life as in the portrait, . . . approved of nothing"”

“In essence, Wisdom's home serves as a multivalent symbol that illuminates her indispensable value as well as her noble status; it identifies Wisdom's fundamental role in the establishment of a household and depicts her as a wealthy matrician”

“The society consists of a number of matricians which, as each is exogamous, are linked together by ties of kinship and marriage. This sort of society is very common throughout the islands off the mainland.”

“However, the household was controlled by its senior women; because of the residence pattern, the men were unrelated outsiders who belonged to different matricians.”

“In order of rank, the matricians were the pig, dog, snake, and iguana clans.”

“It is quite apparent why a matrician missed this generalization, because his creed is to build from low-order matrices high-order arrays.”

“The study of the pencil is helpful not only to matricians for a more efficient calculation of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors, but also to control theorists for the analysis and design of their control systems.”

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