Meaning

5 senses
  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK)A quadrilateral with two sides parallel.

    a quadrilateral with no parallel sides

  2. A quadrilateral with two sides parallel.

    (Australia, New Zealand, UK)A quadrilateral with two sides parallel and two sides non-parallel.

  3. (US, dated)A four-sided polygon with no parallel sides and no sides equal; a simple convex irregular quadrilateral.

    Trapezoid, Trapez, Paralleltrapez

    трапе́цияtrapécija

  4. The trapezium bone of the wrist.

    the wrist bone on the thumb side of the hand that articulates with the 1st and 2nd metacarpals

  5. 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.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. A trapezium is a quadrilateral with two parallel sides.

    deEin Trapez ist ein ebenes Viereck mit zwei parallelen Seiten.

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  2. How do you work out the surface area of a trapezium?

    deWie kann man den Flächeninhalt eines Trapezes berechnen?

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  3. Some important geometric shapes are the triangle, the square, the rectangle, the circle, the parallelogram and the trapezium.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
polygon with two parallel sides:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
polygon with no parallel sides and no equal sides:
polygon with two parallel sides:

Origin

Learned borrowing from Late Latin trapezium, borrowed from Ancient Greek τρᾰπέζῐον (trăpéz

Learned borrowing from Late Latin trapezium, borrowed from Ancient Greek τρᾰπέζῐον (trăpézĭon, “irregular quadrilateral”, literally “small table”), from τράπεζα (trápeza, “table”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix). First attested in 1570. Doublet of trapeze.

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Forms

plural: trapeziums / trapezia
Singulartrapezium
Pluraltrapeziums / trapezia

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
four-sided polygon with two parallel sides:trapezoid
four-sided polygon with no sides parallel and no equal sides:irregular quadrilateral
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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