noun, plural tra·pe·zi·ums, tra·pe·zi·a [truh-pee-zee-uh] /trəˈpi zi ə/.
- (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).
- trapeze artist,
- trapezoid ligament,
- trapezoid line
Origin of trapezium
Examples from the Web for trapezium
Saturn's two close satellites regularly observed—eight stars in the trapezium of Orion!
Well, it's much the same way with me since my stallion William died—of trapezium, I think the doctor said.A Man in the Open|Roger Pocock
The bones were then dissected out, leaving the trapezium, which was not diseased, and hand placed on a splint.A Manual of the Operations of Surgery|Joseph Bell
The Lick telescope has disclosed one or two other minute points of light associated with the Trapezium.Pleasures of the telescope|Garrett Serviss
The city of Tralles is built upon ground in the shape somewhat of a trapezium.
noun plural -ziums or -zia (-zɪə)
Word Origin for trapezium
1560s, from Late Latin trapezium, from Greek trapezion "irregular quadrilateral," literally "a little table," diminutive of trapeza "table," from tra- "four" (see four) + peza "foot, edge," related to pous (see foot (n.)). Before 1540s, Latin editions of Euclid used the Arabic word helmariphe. As the name of a bone in the wrist, it is recorded from 1840.