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MATLAB
MATLAB, short for "matrix laboratory," is a proprietary programming language and numeric computing environment developed by MathWorks, designed to operate on whole matrices and arrays for algorithm development, data analysis, and visualization.
Matlalcue Vallis
Matlalcue Vallis is a 300 km sinuous lava channel on Venus at 33S, 167.5E in quadrangle V-49, named in 1997 for an Aztec fresh water goddess.
Matlatzinca
Matlatzinca is an indigenous people of central Mexico and their Oto-Mangue language, historically centered in the Toluca Valley and conquered by the Mexica under Axayacatl in 1476.
Matlazahuatl epidemic
The matlazahuatl epidemic of 1736–1739 was an outbreak of epidemic typhus that began in Tacuba and swept the Viceroyalty of New Spain, killing more than 40,000 people in Mexico City alone.
Matlock (2024 TV series)
Matlock (2024) is a CBS legal drama starring Kathy Bates as Madeline "Matty" Matlock, a septuagenarian lawyer with a hidden revenge agenda at the firm Jacobson Moore; inspired by, not a reboot of, the Andy Griffith series, created by Jennie Snyder Urman, renewed through Season 3.
Matmar
Matmar is an Egyptian cemetery and settlement site about 15 km north of Badari, in use from the Predynastic Badarian period to early Islamic times.
Matmatah
Matmatah is a French rock band formed in 1995 in the café-concerts of Brest, Brittany, best known for "Lambé An Dro" and "Emma" and for blending French rock with traditional Breton music.
Matminer
Matminer is an open-source Python library for data mining materials properties, introduced in 2018 by Logan Ward and Anubhav Jain at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso, Brazilian Center-West state, capital Cuiabá, code 51. Largest soy producer; spans Amazon, Cerrado, Pantanal biomes; 903,208 km², 3.66 million people (2022 census), 142 municipalities.
Mato Grosso Plateau
Mato Grosso Plateau (Planalto Mato-Grossense), elevated central-western Brazilian Highlands terrain in Mato Grosso state; mosaic of chapadas and plateaus, including Parecis and Guimarães, dividing Amazon, Paraguay and Tocantins-Araguaia drainages above the Pantanal.
Matobo Hills
Matobo Hills, also Matopo or Matopos Hills, a granite cultural landscape south of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003 with over 3,000 rock art sites, 500,000 years of occupation, Mwari shrines, and Rhodes's grave.
Matochkin Strait
Matochkin Strait (Маточкин Шар, Matochkin Shar) is a 2–3 km wide strait separating Severny and Yuzhny islands of Novaya Zemlya, formed along a transverse fault, with Proterozoic basement slices, ca. 700 Ma granites, and nearby underground nuclear testing at Mt. Lasareff.
Matogrosso e Mathias
Matogrosso e Mathias is a Brazilian sertanejo duo formed in 1976, regarded as precursors of música sertaneja romântica and still headliners on Brazil's rodeo circuit.
Matola
Matola (Cidade da Matola) is the capital of Maputo Province, Mozambique, and the country's second largest city, with 1,032,197 people at the 2017 census, an industrial economy, and the Matola bulk port terminal.
Matola raid
The Matola raid was a 1981 cross-border attack in which South African Defence Force commandos destroyed ANC safe houses in Matola, a suburb of Maputo, Mozambique.
Matooskie
Matooskie, or Nancy McKenzie (c. 1790–1851), was a fur-trade country wife of John George McTavish, abandoned in 1830, remarried to Pierre Le Blanc, and later commemorated in art and by descendant Kevin Clifton.
Matope
Matope (Nyanhehwe Matope) was the second ruler of the Mutapa state, a Shona kingdom in present-day Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and son of its founder Nyatsimba Mutota.
Matosinhos
Matosinhos, coastal city and municipality in Porto District, Portugal, near Porto; 181,046 inhabitants. Known for Leixões SC (founded 1907), Estádio do Mar, and the Matosinhos Sport municipal sports company.
Matou power station
Matou power station (大唐马头发电厂) is a coal-fired power and heating station in Matou, Handan, Hebei, China. Founded in 1958, it is owned by China Datang and supplies the southern Hebei grid.
MatPat
MatPat (Matthew Robert Patrick) is the American YouTube creator who founded The Game Theorists in 2011 and its sister channels, retired as host March 9, 2024, succeeded by Tom Robinson, and runs Theorist Media.
Matplotlib
Matplotlib is an open-source Python library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations, begun around 2003 by neurobiologist John D. Hunter and serving as the foundation for libraries like Seaborn.
MATR3
MATR3 (matrin 3), gene at 5q31.2 encoding a DNA- and RNA-binding nuclear matrix protein with two zinc fingers and two RRMs; S85C mutation causes VCPDM distal myopathy and ALS21.
Matrabaddha
Matrabaddha (मात्राबद्ध), also called mātrik chhand or mātrāvṛtta, is a family of Indian poetic meters regulated by the total number of mātrās, or prosodic instants, in each line rather than by fixed syllable patterns.
Matrakçı Nasuh
Matrakçı Nasuh (died 1564) was an Ottoman historian, mathematician, miniaturist, calligrapher, and swordsman who gave Ottoman miniature painting a topographic direction through illustrated city views.
Matrceta
Matrceta (मातृचेत) was an Indian Buddhist poet, converted from Hinduism by Aryadeva, famed for his Sanskrit hymns to the Buddha and for advising the Kushan emperor Kanishka by letter.
Matrei
Matrei (Pleiades 187469) is an ancient mine and quarry place near Matrei in Osttirol, Austria, cited from Barrington Atlas 19 E2, dated 30 BC–AD 640, distinct from Matreium at Matrei am Brenner.
Matrera castle
Matrera Castle (Castillo de Matrera), 9th-century hilltop fortress in Villamartín, Cadiz, Spain, founded by Omar Ben Hafsun; its 2014-2016 concrete restoration by Carlos Quevedo was ridiculed, then won the Architizer A+ award.
Matriarchy
Matriarchy: term for rule by women, the counterpart of patriarchy, or in modern matriarchal studies a mother-centered, gender-egalitarian gift-economy society; no true female-dominant society is documented, and matriarchy differs from matrilineality.
Matric potential
Matric potential, also called soil-water tension, is the part of soil water potential due to capillary and adsorptive forces, becoming more negative as soil dries.
Matrica
Matrica: Roman auxiliary fort and vicus at Százhalombatta, Hungary, on the Danube limes of Pannonia. Timber fort from c. AD 100, stone fort 152 by 155 m under Commodus, garrisoned by coh. milliaria Maurorum equitata; baths still visible.