a term describing a controlled environment or situation in which people act or behave in ways that conform to roles pre-determined by a powerful person(s) who decides how the world is supposed to function.
Living on or within a matrix may also be referred to as "on the grid", with greater flexibility and choice available to those who venture off-the-grid.
After years of living a boring life, working 9-to-5 on the East Coast matrix, he relocated to Portland, Oregon, where he traded his car for a bicycle and started earning a living with his acoustic guitar.
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computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into a battery.
NO ONE CAN BE TOLD WHAT THE MATRIX IS, YOU HAVE TO SEE IT FOR YOURSELF. k.
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Verb:To dodge something w/ superhuman ability.
"Dude, he threw that ball at me and i like matrixed it."
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a massive computer program used in a movie of the same title, serving the purpose of controlling the human race, ironically not that far from the truth...
"Hey, you think we're in a matrix?"
"Shut up! The highway scene's almost on again! SHHHH!"
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A rectangular array of numbers or expressions. The plural is 'matrices'. An n x m matrix has n rows and m columns.
Find the determinant of this matrix.
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1. To spend a significant portion of a day or even a week watching without pause back to back episodes from multiple seasons of a single television series, replacing the experience of one's own reality and resulting in lingering effects on one's consciousness, once the final episode has been watched. 2. To re-set one's own immediate depressive state by immersing oneself in a mediated one (television, film, online social forum, amusement park, etc.) for an extended, but ultimately temporary, period of time.
Jan was in such a funk that she withdrew into her dorm room with a Costco carton of microwaveable popcorn to matrix on the complete seven seasons of Wire in the Blood, emerging three days later with a slight British accent and a less slight case of paranoia.
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computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into a battery.
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