Definitions for trapezium

trapezium tra·pe·zi·um

Spelling: [truh-pee-zee-uh m]
IPA: /trəˈpi zi əm/

Trapezium is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 441 anagrams from letters in trapezium (aeimprtuz).

Definitions for trapezium

noun

  1. Geometry. (in Euclidean geometry) any rectilinear quadrilateral plane figure not a parallelogram. a quadrilateral plane figure of which no two sides are parallel. British. trapezoid (def 1a).
  2. Anatomy. a bone in the wrist that articulates with the metacarpal bone of the thumb.

Origin of trapezium

1545-55; New Latin Greek trapézion kind of quadrilateral, literally, small table, equivalent to trápez(a) table (shortening of *tetrapeza object having four feet, equivalent to tetra- four +

Examples for trapezium

Well, it's much the same way with me since my stallion William died—of trapezium, I think the doctor said.

To find the area of a trapezium: Divide it into two triangles and find the areas of the latter by the first rule.

Its form is that of a trapezium, or quadrilateral figure whose sides are unequal.

His court must therefore have been a trapezium with its smallest side opposite to the pylon, rather than a rectangle.

Their circuit may in everyday speech be called a square, though strict mathematical accuracy must pronounce it to be a trapezium.

The city of Tralles is built upon ground in the shape somewhat of a trapezium.

There was a curious thirteenth-century chest, trapezium in form, and said to be the only one of that shape in the West of England.

Below it lies the city in a plain of the form of a trapezium, at the very foot of the Acrocorinthus.

Strictly speaking the peninsula on which the city stands is of the form of a trapezium.

trapezium: a four-sided figure in which no two sides are parallel.

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