What is the difference between matrix and womb?

Womb is a synonym of matrix.

As nouns the difference between matrix and womb

is that matrix is the womb while womb is in female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.

As a verb womb is

to enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.

matrix

English

Noun

(en-noun)

The womb.

* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.17:

upon conception the inward orifice of the matrix exactly closeth, so that it commonly admitteth nothing after [...].

* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 296:

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 [...].

(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.

Synonyms

* (mathematics) array, table * (table of data) array, grid, spreadsheet, table * (computing) array

Derived terms

* dot matrix * extracellular matrix * geological matrix * matricial

womb

English

(uterus)

Alternative forms

* (l) (dialectal)

Noun

(en noun)

(anatomy) In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.

(obsolete) The abdomen or stomach.

*:And his hede, hym semed,was enamyled with asure, and his shuldyrs shone as the golde, and his wombe was lyke mayles of a merveylous hew.

(obsolete) The stomach of a person or creature.

*1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Jonah II:

*:And þe Lord made redi a gret fish þat he shulde swolewe Ionas; and Ionas was in wombe of þe fish þre da?es and þre ni?tis.

(figuratively) A place where something is made or formed.

*Dryden

*:The womb of earth the genial seed receives.

Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.

*Robert Browning

*:The centre spike of gold / Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb .

Synonyms

* (organ in mammals) uterus, matrix (poetic or literary''), belly (''poetic or literary )

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.

(Shakespeare)