Trapezium

Definition: Trapezium

Trapezium

Noun

1. (in US) a quadrilateral with no parallel sides.

2. A multiple star in the constellation of Orion.

3. The wrist bone on the thumb side of the hand that articulates with the 1st and 2nd metacarpals.

Date "trapezium" was first used: 1570. (references)

Etymology: Trapezium \Tra*pe"zi*um\, noun; plural English Trapeziums, from Latin expression Trapezia. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression little table, an irregular four-sided figure, diminutive of table, for (see Tetra-) foot, akin to foot; hence, originally, table with four feet. See Foot.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Trapezium

Synonyms: os trapezium (n), the Trapezium (n), trapezium bone (n). (additional references)

Antonym: parallelogram (n). (additional references)

The term trapezium can mean more than one thing:

In human anatomy, trapezium is a bone in the hand
In geometry, a trapezium is also a name for a class of quadrilaterals. The precise definition differs between American English and British English, as described in that article.
In astronomy, a grouping of four young stars (an open cluster) and the associated gas in the Orion Nebula. [1]

Trapezium (bone)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The trapezium is a bone in the human hand. It was also previously referred to as the greater multangular bone or the os multangulum majus.

This bone is a carpal bone, in the section commonly referred to as the wrist. It articulates distally with the first metacarpal bone (of the thumb) and proximally with the scaphoid bone. It articulates with the traphezoid bone and the second metacarpal bone medially.

Crosswords: Trapezium

English words defined with "trapezium": os trapezoideum ♦ Trapezate, Trapezia, Trapeziform, Trapeziums, trapezoid, trapezoid bone. (references)

Specialty definitions using "trapezium": Carpal Bones ♦ sectoral horn ♦ trapezium distortion, trapezoidal rule. (references)

Etymologies containing "trapezium": Trapezate. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	These four streets surrounded this trapezium like a ditch.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Trapezium" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Trapezium" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	6	143,867

Expressions using "trapezium": os trapezium ♦ the Trapezium ♦ trapezium bone ♦ trapezium distortion. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "trapezium": trapezium-first.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "trapezium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		trapez (trapeze), katërkëndësh (four-cornered, quad, quadrangle, quadrangular, quadrate, quadrilateral, tetragon, tetragonal, tetrahedron). (various references)

Arabic		‏معين منحرف, ‏عظم في الرسغ عند قاعدة الإبهام, ‏المعين المنحرف هندسة. (various references)

Bulgarian		трапецовидна кост, трапецоид (trapezoid), трапец (trapeze, trapezoid). (various references)

Czech		lichobìžník (trapezoid). (various references)

Danish		trapezforvrængning (trapezium distortion), ophængningstrapez (trapezium floating suspension). (various references)

Dutch		trapeziumvormige vertekening (trapezium distortion), trapeziumvervorming (trapezium distortion), trapeziumvering (trapezium floating suspension). (various references)

Finnish		trapetsivääristymä (trapezium distortion, trapezoidal distortion). (various references)

French		trapèze (trapeze). (various references)

German		trapez (trapeze, trapezoid). (various references)

Greek		τραπέζιο (trapeze, trapezoid). (various references)

Hungarian		trapéz (trapeze). (various references)

Italian		trapezio (trapeze, trapezius). (various references)

Manx		boayrdeen (small table). (various references)

Pig Latin		apeziumtray

Portuguese		trapezóide, trapézio (trapeze). (various references)

Russian		трапеция (trapeze, trapezia, trapezius, trapezoid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trapezoid. (various references)

Spanish		trapecio (trapeze). (various references)

Swedish		trapets (trapeze). (various references)

Turkish		trapez kemiği, yamuk (irregular, skew, skewed, trapezoid, warped), ikizkenar yamuk (trapezoid). (various references)

Ukrainian		трапеція (trapeze). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	trapezion. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "trapezium": trapeziums. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Trapezium" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: trapesium, trapezius. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "trapezium" (pronounced 'Tra*pe"zi*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-p-r-t-u-z"
	-1 letter: apterium.
	-2 letters: azurite, imputer, muriate, primate, tempura.
	-3 letters: armpit, atrium, imaret, impart, impure, impute, iterum, mature, mazier, patzer, permit, pirate, tamper, umpire, uprate, uptear, uptime, uremia.
	-4 letters: aimer, apter, armet, atrip, aurei, azure, erupt, irate, maize, mater, mazer, merit, mirza, miter, mitre, muter, pareu, pater, peart, pieta, prate, prima, prime, prize, pruta, ramet, ramie.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-p-r-t-u-z"
	+1 letter: trapeziums.
	+5 letters: computerizable.
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