Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A quadrilateral having no parallel sides.
- noun Chiefly British A trapezoid.
- noun Anatomy A bone in the wrist at the base of the thumb.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geometry: Any quadrilateral not a parallelogram. A trapezoid.
- noun An irregular quadrangle in the nebula of Orion, formed by its four brightest stars.
- noun In geometry, a plane figure contained by four straight lines of which no two are parallel.
- noun In anatomy:
- noun A cross-band of fibers near the lower border of the pons Varolii, passing from the region of the accessory auditory nucleus to the raphe.
- noun The bone on the radial side of the distal row of carpal bones, articulating with the metacarpal bone of the thumb; carpale I. of the typical carpus, whatever its actual shape. Also called
multangulum majus . See cuts under Perissodactyla, scapholunar, and hand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geom.) A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.
- noun A bone of the carpus at the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb.
- noun A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geometry, UK A four-sided
polygon with two sidesparallel ; atrapezoid (modern sense) - noun geometry, US A four-sided
polygon with no parallel sides and no sides equal; a simple convex irregularquadrilateral . - noun A
bone of thecarpus at the base of the firstmetacarpal , orthumb . - noun A region on the
ventral side of thebrain , either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a quadrilateral with no parallel sides
- noun the wrist bone on the thumb side of the hand that articulates with the 1st and 2nd metacarpals
- noun a multiple star in the constellation of Orion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Rosse himself writing to Professor Nichol, in 1846, "I may safely say there can be little, if any, doubt as to the resolvability of the nebula; -- all about the trapezium is a mass of stars, the rest of the nebula also abounding with stars, and exhibiting the characteristics of resolvability strongly marked."
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Orionis, also called the trapezium of Orion) is in itself the most striking multiple star in the whole heavens.
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But for better or worse, they thrived down here, especially in what is known as Cajun country, the geocultural trapezium whose points are New Orleans, Houma, Cameron, and Lafayette.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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But for better or worse, they thrived down here, especially in what is known as Cajun country, the geocultural trapezium whose points are New Orleans, Houma, Cameron, and Lafayette.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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But for better or worse, they thrived down here, especially in what is known as Cajun country, the geocultural trapezium whose points are New Orleans, Houma, Cameron, and Lafayette.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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But for better or worse, they thrived down here, especially in what is known as Cajun country, the geocultural trapezium whose points are New Orleans, Houma, Cameron, and Lafayette.
Into the Story DAVID MARANISS 2010
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I just borrowed it to refer to the shape of the basins in section -- cones with their apices cut off or a 3-sides-equal trapezium, exactly similar to the ones you see in the diagrams above, though it would be serrated because of the stairs.
Tele-Hydrology 2009
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It was the size of — and as oddly shaped a trapezium as — a bad West Village studio.
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The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused the walls to be very much higher on the inside than on the outside.
Les Miserables 2008
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In this manner they crossed the inner trapezium of the barricade.
Les Miserables 2008
kaili commented on the word trapezium
Sharp with a popping orange color.
March 31, 2009
atapizdun commented on the word trapezium
trapezium and trapezoid have opposite meanings in American and British English:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Trapezium.html
December 1, 2011