Trapezium

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A quadrilateral having no parallel sides.
  • n. Chiefly British A trapezoid.
  • n. A bone in the wrist at the base of the thumb.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A four-sided polygon with two sides parallel; a trapezoid (modern sense)
  • n. A four-sided polygon with no parallel sides and no sides equal; a simple convex irregular quadrilateral.
  • n. A bone of the carpus at the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb.
  • n. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.
  • n.
  • n. A bone of the carpus at the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In geometry: Any quadrilateral not a parallelogram. A trapezoid.
  • n. An irregular quadrangle in the nebula of Orion, formed by its four brightest stars.
  • n. In geometry, a plane figure contained by four straight lines of which no two are parallel.
  • n. In anatomy:
  • n. A cross-band of fibers near the lower border of the pons Varolii, passing from the region of the accessory auditory nucleus to the raphe.
  • n. The bone on the radial side of the distal row of carpal bones, articulating with the metacarpal bone of the thumb; carpale I. of the typical carpus, whatever its actual shape. Also called multangulum majus. See cuts under Perissodactyla, scapholunar, and hand.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a quadrilateral with no parallel sides
  • n. the wrist bone on the thumb side of the hand that articulates with the 1st and 2nd metacarpals
  • n. a multiple star in the constellation of Orion
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