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TRAPEZIUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: trapezia   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

os trapezium; trapezium; trapezium bone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("trapezium" is a kind of...):

carpal; carpal bone; wrist bone (any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A multiple star in the constellation of Orion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("Trapezium" is a kind of...):

multiple star (a system of three or more stars associated by gravity)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A quadrilateral with no parallel sides

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("trapezium" is a kind of...):

quadrangle; quadrilateral; tetragon (a four-sided polygon)

Domain region:

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Antonym:

parallelogram (a quadrilateral whose opposite sides are both parallel and equal in length)

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