trapezoidal

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Oxford said the trapezoidal area is about a kilometre long, has a short side a half-kilometre long and is about a kilometre deep.

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  1. Having the form of a trapezoid: as, the trapezoidal bone or ligament (in anatomy). The form of each vaulting compartment of an apsidal aisle is, of course, trapezoidal. C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 100.
  2. In crystallography, having the surface composed of twenty-four trapeziums, allequal and similar.
  3. Trapezoidal wall. See wall.

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  • For several seconds Meredith's brain tried anyway to classify them in terms of familiar polygons—squarish, trapezoidal, triangular—before finally giving up the exercise as pointless. —  Spinneret
  • Styling touches for the Cupra edition of the car include a new front bumper, little air intakes surrounding the front grille, 17 inch alloy wheels, and a new rear diffuser integrating a trapezoidal-shaped centrally-mounted exhaust tail pipe. —  Paul Tan's Raves and Rants on the Automotive Industry
  • About ten miles down the road, said box truck was in a ditch, it's box less squarish than trapezoidal, and it's contents are scattered all over the shoulder. —  Neanderpundit
  • The four-link front suspension as well as a trapezoidal link rear suspension assures sporty driving dynamics and agile handling. —  Top Speed
  • It offers a variety of motion modes, including S-curve, trapezoidal, velocity contouring and electronic gearing, while its servo loop compensation utilizes a full 32-bit position error, PID with velocity and acceleration feed forward, integration limit and dual biquad filters. —  All DN headlines
 

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