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Trapezoid   Listen
noun
Trapezoid  n.  
1.
(Geom.) A plane four-sided figure, having two sides parallel to each other.
2.
(Anat.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the second metacarpal, or index finger.


adjective
Trapezoid  adj.  
1.
Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoidal; as, the trapezoid ligament which connects the coracoid process and the clavicle.
2.
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the trapezoid ligament; as, the trapezoid line.





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"Trapezoid" Quotes from Famous Books



... States is twenty-three millions. Now, take the map of the continent of Europe and spread it out before you. Take your scale and your dividers, and lay off in one area, in any shape you please, a triangle, square, circle, parallelogram, or trapezoid, and of an extent that shall contain one hundred and fifty millions of people, and there will be found within the United States more persons who do habitually read and write than can be embraced within ...
— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster
... In this trapezoid the fire of rebellion never sleeps long. As we write comes the report of seven hundred French troops surrounded by ten thousand natives in the southernmost or Atlas region of Algeria. The bloody lessons of last year have not taught the Kabyle submission. It seems that his nature is quite untamable. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 • Various


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