trapezoid

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See, in the chequered pavement opposite, Suppose the artist made a perfect rhomb, And next a lozenge, then a trapezoid-- He did not overlay them, superimpose The new upon the old and blot it out, But laid them on a level in his work, Making at last a picture; there it lies.

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  1. noun A quadrilateral having two parallel sides.
  2. noun A small bone in the wrist, situated near the base of the index finger.

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  • He led me to my quarters, a trapezoid-shaped, low-ceilinged room with elaborately etched stone walls and no contents except a human bed, chest, table, and chair. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
  • It was downright rude to drop in without at least phoning first On the other hand, my intentions were pure Warm orange light seeped from the back windows of the farmhouse into trapezoid-shaped puddles on the snow-covered lawn. —  A VOID
  • World Trade Center building 7 was not a square or a rectangle, but a trapezoid: —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • The unique, trapezoid, dual chrome exhaust pipes accentuate the fine detail put into the design. —  Autoblog
  • CALCULUS Tutorial of how to do left, midpoint, right, trapezoid, and asymmetric riemann sums using a function or a table of values. —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
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  1. New Latin trapezoīdēs, from Greek trapezoeidēs, trapezium-shaped : trapeza, table; see trapezium + -oeidēs, -oid.

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  1. =F. trapézoïds =Spanish trapezoide (New Latin trapezoides, as a noun also trapezoideam), from Greek τραπεζοειδής, from τράπεζα, table, + εἰδος, form.
 

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