matric

noun

1. (South-Africa, countable, uncountable)The final year of high school.
2. (South-Africa, countable, uncountable)Someone in their final year of high school.

   “Once, when some money disappeared […], it was Ben who took the cleaner under his wing and instituted inquiries which revealed a group of matric boys to be the culprits.”

3. (Ireland, alt-of, countable, historical, informal, uncountable)Alternative letter-case form of Matric
4. (Ireland, historical, informal, uncountable)The Matriculation Examination of the National University of Ireland (last held in 1992)

   “Entrance […] is on the basis of the Matriculation Examination (Matric) of the National University of Ireland (N.U.I.) held in June and September each year. […] Passes in the Leaving Certificate (L. C.) in the requisite subjects, or in the General Certificate of Education, Northern Ireland, are accepted as equivalent to Matric.”

   “As well as me failing the Matric, my lack of sophistication was the despair of my mother.”

   “She had sat the Leaving Cert over 3 weeks in June, the Matric over the first week in July and the College of Surgeons entrance exam in the second week in July.”

   “to qualify for a grant you must have passed five subjects in the Leaving Cert […] Some students got their results in the matric and it is not recognised, so they lost their grant for that reason.”

   “Now, finally, in September 1934, I entered my Matric year. […] I had six subjects – English, Maths, Latin, French, History and Irish – and in most of them I was quite competent, with the exception of Irish, of which I knew nothing. I learned everything off by heart for the Matric Irish.”

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of or pertaining to matrices.

   “But throughout this book we look upon the matric algebras as our primary object;”

   “[…] the possibility of using matric methods to solve analysis and synthesis problems becomes apparent.”

   “In other words, its controls are homeomorphic to the matric mathematics.”