The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
MATLAB
    A high-level language
   and interactive program from The MathWorks for numeric
   computation and visualisation.  MATLAB supports numerical
   analysis, matrix computation, signal processing, linear
   algebra, statistics, Fourier analysis, filtering,
   optimisation and numerical integration.  It can output two
   and three dimensional graphics and can be integrated with C,
   C++, Fortran, Java, COM and Microsoft Excel.
   (http://mathworks.com/products/matlab/).
   (2005-08-13)