The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trapezium \Tra*pe"zi*um\, n.; pl. E. Trapeziums, L. Trapezia. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a little table, an irregular four-sided figure, dim. of ? a table, for ?; ? (see Tetra-) + ? foot, akin to ? foot; hence, originally, a table with four feet. See Foot.]
(Geom.) A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.
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(Anat.)
A bone of the carpus at the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb.
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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of trapezium English)
Usage examples of "trapeziums".
He can't stop walking, moves around the courtyard in a random sequence of unconscious geometries, his footsteps tracing out a series of ellipses, trapeziums, rhomboids, ovals, rings.
She raised her dry but inflamed eyes toward heaven, toward the sun, toward the silvery clouds, studded here and there with trapeziums and triangles of azure, and then cast them down around her upon the earth, upon the crowd, upon the houses.