English Explanatory Dictionary

Matrix defense

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A legal defense in which the defendant claims to have committed a crime in the belief that they were not in the real world, but in a simulated reality.

Word forms

Matrix defense the Matrix defense

Etymology

From the plot of the film The Matrix (1999), whose protagonist is woken from an illusionary simulated world into the dystopian reality.

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