Quadrilateral with two parallel sides of unequal length

Usage examples of trapezium.

The trapezium shrank before their eyes, indicating that the chasers, too, had shifted from orbital motion to hyperbolic and were coming together, bright with the heat of the increased drives.

It was a quadrilateral of the kind the Greeks termed a trapezium, having no side parallel to any other.

Looking up from her work, she made out the distant trapezium of an apparently flat-topped mountain dominating the murky horizon.

Ever ahead loomed the low, flat-topped trapezium of the cauldron-mountain, dark through the haze.

One of the reasons she had given up swinging an ax was that her deltoids and trapezium were too big to allow her to bend her arms all the way around behind her.

As I looked back towards the hotel, the front door shot a long trapezium of yellow light across the sandy path.

Steel slid through blood and then jammed against the trapezium bone below the first knuckle of my thumb.

The streetlamp came on, throwing a yellow trapezium on the flowered wallpaper and the pale areas where the pictures had hung, and, as if this was the signal triggering something in his brain, Taffy got up and began the final stage.

The bullet hole was a perfect little blue puncture in the smooth skin, already surrounded by a halo of inflammation, and the bullet was trapped between his ribs and the sheet of flat, hard trapezium muscles.

Now the inner line was more like a trapezium, narrower at the top, spreading at the bottom.

We fell among the stars of the Trapezium, which glowed with the lovely green of interstellar ionized oxygen.

On closer inspection, however, it was apparent that it had distinctly unnatural features: The rock was shaped like a trapezium, and its smooth surface glistened in the rays of the morning sunshine coming from low in the sky behind him.

The wound extended from the styloid process directly across to the trapezium, dividing all the muscles and blood-vessels, cutting through bones.

At the heart lay the Trapezium, the four hottest, massive stars, whose phenomenal ultraviolet output illuminated and energized the whole colossal expanse of interstellar gas.

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.