Associations to the word «Trapezium»

Wiktionary

TRAPEZIUM, noun. (geometry) (British) (AU) (NZ) A four-sided polygon with two sides parallel; a trapezoid (modern sense)
TRAPEZIUM, noun. (geometry) (US) A four-sided polygon with no parallel sides and no sides equal; a simple convex irregular quadrilateral.
TRAPEZIUM, noun. (anatomy) The trapezium bone of the wrist.
TRAPEZIUM, 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.
TRAPEZIUM BONE, noun. (anatomy) A bone of the carpus at the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb.

Dictionary definition

TRAPEZIUM, noun. A quadrilateral with no parallel sides.
TRAPEZIUM, noun. A multiple star in the constellation of Orion.
TRAPEZIUM, noun. The wrist bone on the thumb side of the hand that articulates with the 1st and 2nd metacarpals.

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