matrician

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A female patrician

   A female patrician; an upper class matriarch

   • Instead, Bettina traces her lineage through "Foremother," whose oil portrait watches over the homestead; she is described as a "matrician" who "in life as in the portrait, . . . approved of nothing"
2. 2

   A group or clan claiming matrilineal descent from a (usually legendary) female ancestor

   • The society consists of a number of matricians which, as each is exogamous, are linked together by ties of kinship and marriage. This sort of society is very common throughout the islands off the mainland.
   • However, the household was controlled by its senior women; because of the residence pattern, the men were unrelated outsiders who belonged to different matricians.
   • In order of rank, the matricians were the pig, dog, snake, and iguana clans.
3. 3

   Upper class and matriarchal

   • Forfend that her stern shade ever resent a comparison with such frail creatures ! She carries the historic ' prowde countenance of the Geraldines ' of her day. Aristocratic, matrician, and placid, though deeply traced with sorrow
   • Quinn could only smile at the old dame's manner. Just as Connie had told him, she was immediately reigning over everything with matrician authority.
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   1. 4

      A mathematician who studies matrices

      • It is quite apparent why a matrician missed this generalization, because his creed is to build from low-order matrices high-order arrays.
      • The study of the pencil is helpful not only to matricians for a more efficient calculation of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors, but also to control theorists for the analysis and design of their control systems.
   2. 5

      Pertaining to matrices

      • For the j-circle method a convenient and comprehensive book is that by Kuske where the interested reader will find all the detail but it is not presented with a matrician calculus.
      • A matrician method (method of nodal displacement) allows to obtain directly the stiffness matrix and the center of motion.

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