matricians

Noun (1)

matrician (plural matricians)

1. A female patrician; an upper class matriarch
   • In the present state of society we need not go far to find many a man who would give all the waltzes and polkas that a matrician genius ever invented, and throw all the new-fangled flourishes upon piano and guitar into the bargain, for healthful breakfasts [...]1854, The Model Housekeeper, The Friend, page 358
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.1967, New Guinea and Australia, the Pacific and South-east Asia

Noun (2)

matrician (plural matricians)

1. 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.1940, Electrical Engineering

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