Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Latin plural of
trapezium .
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- noun Plural form of
trapezium .
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Examples
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Multiple stars, like the so called trapezia, are known to eject components, often rearranging the dynamics and structure of the multiple.
Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way | Universe Today 2010
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My lats, deltoids, and trapezia are apparently as withered as month-old grapes.
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It was purfled about the rim of the soundbox with trapezia of shimmering mother-of-pearl, and it had a black strikeplate in the shape of a clematis flower, inlaid with multicoloured blossoms that were purely the result of an exuberant craftsman's imagination.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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We conclude from the Papyrus Rhind (say 1700 B. C.) and other documents that Egyptian geometry consisted mainly of practical rules for measuring, with more or less accuracy, (1) such areas as squares, triangles, trapezia, and circles, (2) the solid content of measures of corn, &c., of different shapes.
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