Matrix vs Index - What's the difference?
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* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.17:
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 296:
(biology) The material or tissue in which more specialized structures are embedded.
(biology) An extracellular matrix, the material or tissue between the cells of animals or plants.
(biology) Part of the mitochondrion.
(biology) The medium in which bacteria are cultured.
(mathematics) A rectangular arrangement of numbers or terms having various uses such as transforming coordinates in geometry, solving systems of linear equations in linear algebra and representing graphs in graph theory.
(computing) A two-dimensional array.
A table of data.
(geology) A geological matrix, the outer material of a rock consisting of larger grains embedded in a material consisting of smaller ones.
(archaeology and paleontology) The sediment surrounding and including the artifacts, features, and other materials at a site.
(analytical chemistry) The environment from which a given sample is taken.
An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
The index finger; the forefinger.
A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
(printing) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
* Arbuthnot
A sign; an indication; a token.
* Robert Louis Stevenson
(linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
(economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
(science) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
(mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
(programming, computing) An integer or other key indicating the location of data e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
(computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
(obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
To inventory, to take stock.
As nouns the difference between matrix and index
is that matrix is matrix while index is index.matrix
English
Noun
(en-noun)- upon conception the inward orifice of the matrix exactly closeth, so that it commonly admitteth nothing after [...].
- In very rare cases, when the matrix just goes on pegging away automatically, the doctor can take advantage of that and ease out the second brat who then can be considered to be, say, three minutes younger [...].
Synonyms
* (mathematics) array, table * (table of data) array, grid, spreadsheet, table * (computing) arrayDerived terms
* dot matrix * extracellular matrix * geological matrix * matricialindex
English
(wikipedia index)Noun
(en-noun)- The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.
- Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants.
- His son's empty guffaws struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.
- (Shakespeare)