1. New; recent: Neolithic.
2. New and different: neoimpressionism.
ma•trix
(mtrks)
A situation or
surrounding
substance within which
something else
originates,
develops,or is contained
[Middle
English matrice,
from Old French, from Late Latin
mtrx,
mtrc-,
from Latin, breeding-animal, from mter,
mtr-,
mother.