trapeziums

Our MTM mill absorbs many advantages from various mills all over the world, such as trapeziums working surface, flexible connection, roll linked pressure boost, etc.

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Relationships between the younger, single members of staff were purest catnip to us; we were always turning love triangles into love trapeziums.

Actually, I think Johnny Anglais really is a class act | Rachel Cooke 2011

In the schoolroom she disliked the dreariness of geography, and geometry's uninteresting straight lines and the silly shape of trapeziums.

William Trevor | An Idyll in Winter 2011

In the mid-1970s she applied her inventiveness to the size of the plates and to setting bending lines on triangles, ovals and trapeziums, while dialogues between lines and alphabets were located on round plates (Galaxy Gutenberg, 1978; Interferences, 1979).

Paola Levi-Montalcini. 2009

He can't stop walking, moves around the courtyard in a random sequence of unconscious geometries, his footsteps tracing out a series of ellipses, trapeziums, rhomboids, ovals, rings.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Two men compete for the favors of a bored girl who wishes the hell with both of them — a spare sexual isosceles which is nicely symbolized in clean, stripped images of sail, sky, and water which group and re-group in triangles and trapeziums of gray and white as the boatload of trouble skims trimly across the lake.

3 1/2 Miller, Jonathan 1964

That barrier was most interesting, because in many places great lava-flows were visible; in other places masses of ferruginous rock could be observed, with most extraordinary patterns upon them -- triangles, rectangles, trapeziums, and all kinds of other angular geometrical patterns, such as we had met before on the high plateau of Matto Grosso.

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

We observed this degree of precision that we might not add the uncertainty of the measure of triangles, trapeziums, and the sinuosities of the coasts, to the uncertainty of geographical statements.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

We observed this degree of precision that we might not add the uncertainty of the measure of triangles, trapeziums, and the sinuosities of the coasts, to the uncertainty of geographical statements.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

Syncopations of high and low decks, and of pillars shaped like Vs, triangles and trapeziums, are set up.

Culture | guardian.co.uk Rowan Moore 2010