(physics) matter which has sufficiently high density that the dominant contribution to its pressure arises from the Pauli exclusion principle.

That functions by use of a dot matrix

(nautical) An officer on a merchant ship next in rank to the captain and responsible to the captain for the safety and security of the ship.

plural of genuine issue of material fact

plural of match point

(biblical) Abbreviation of Matthew.

(medicine) Having to do with a fetus and its mother.

The layer which surrounds chondrocytes in cartilage. It is basophilic, and stains metachromatically due to proteoglycans.

(music) A hymn, sung in Latin, telling of the sorrow of the Virgin Mary at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ; the music for this hymn

(mathematics) A square matrix that is its own transpose, and is thereby symmetric about the main diagonal