Rubric vs Matrix - What's the difference?
rubric | matrix |
A heading in a book highlighted in red.
A title of a category or a class.
:* That would fall under the rubric of things we can ignore for now.
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An established rule or custom, a guideline.
* Hook
* De Quincey
(education) A printed set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
Coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.
* Alexander Pope
Of or relating to the rubric or rubrics; rubrical.
To adorn with red; to redden.
The womb.
* 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.
As nouns the difference between rubric and matrix
is that rubric is a heading in a book highlighted in red while matrix is the womb.As an adjective rubric
is coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.As a verb rubric
is to adorn with red; to redden.rubric
English
Alternative forms
* rubrick (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- All the clergy in England solemnly pledge themselves to observe the rubrics .
- Nay, as a duty, it had no place or rubric in human conceptions before Christianity.
- (Cowper)
Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- What though my name stood rubric on the walls / Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals?
Verb
- (Johnson)
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* *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 [...].
