Stroma vs Matrix - What's the difference?
stroma | matrix |
(anatomy) the tissue structure of an organ, etc., that serves to support it
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 stroma and matrix
is that stroma is the tissue structure of an organ, etc., that serves to support it while matrix is the womb.As a proper noun Stroma
is an island of the northern coast of Scotland.stroma
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* * ----matrix
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(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 [...].
