Effect
Effect noun - A condition or occurrence traceable to a cause.
Matrix
Matrix noun - An enclosure within which something originates or develops (from the Latin for womb).
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Ironically, deploying this on an inhabited planet has the opposite effect, destroying all life to make way for the new matrix.
Source: Franchise / Star Trek - Cast from Lifespan: Regis Hastur's use of his "living matrix" 'laran' powers (as well as the Sword of Aldones) to defeat the Sharra matrix by banishing it to another plane in Sharra's Exile ends up having this effect on him.
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To obtain a perspective effect, it was necessary to change the transform matrix every scanline, and HDMA was a convenient, lightweight way to do that.
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