Matrix
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the 1984 novel Neuromancer and popularized in the 1999 movie The Matrix.
Proper noun
[edit]the Matrix
- (science fiction) A simulated reality to which many humans are connected. In some works created by sentient machines to subdue humans.
- 1984, William Gibson, chapter 3, in Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 51:
- “The matrix has its roots in primitive arcade games,” said the voice-over, “in early graphics programs and military experimentation with cranial jacks.” […] “Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts … A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. […] ”
- 2009 September 23, possum, “Re: In which the Trollpa evinzes hizzelf aza profezzional nuizzance”, in talk.religion.buddhism[1] (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:
- Now some folks want to claim that we're in the Matrix right now (or that the physical world is an illusion).
- 2017, Chuck Lorre Productions #557 (post-episode text), "The Recollection Dissipation", The Big Bang Theory
- Recent events have made it abundantly clear that the fabric of the universe is unraveling. Reality as you know it, the matrix if you will, is dissolving.
- (figurative) A social institution or apparatus perceived as largely deceptive or illusory.
- 2022 January 27, William Costa, “German-speaking Covid denialists seek to build paradise in Paraguay”, in The Guardian[2]:
- They claimed that Paraguay’s accommodating immigration laws have proved attractive to Germans who want to “escape the matrix” and flee the “deep state and one world order”.
Derived terms
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin mātrīx. Doublet of Matrize.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Matrix f (genitive Matrix, plural Matrizen or Matrizes or Matrices)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Matrix [feminine]
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Turkish: matriks
Further reading
[edit]- “Matrix” in Duden online
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