Usually means: Four-sided shape, two parallel sides.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word trapezium:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. trapezium: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trapezium: Merriam-Webster
  3. Trapezium, trapezium: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trapezium: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Trapezium, trapezium: Vocabulary.com
  6. Trapezium, trapezium: Wordnik
  7. trapezium: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. trapezium: Wiktionary
  9. trapezium: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. trapezium: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. trapezium: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. trapezium: Dictionary.com
  13. trapezium: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Trapezium (astronomy), Trapezium (bone), Trapezium (disambiguation), Trapezium (shape), Trapezium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Trapezium: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. trapezium: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. The trapezium, trapezium: Rhymezone
  18. Trapezium: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. trapezium: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. trapezium: FreeDictionary.org
  21. trapezium: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. trapezium: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. trapezium: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trapezium: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Trapezium (shape), trapezium: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. trapezium: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Trapezium: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  5. Trapezium (bone), Trapezium (shape), trapezium: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Trapezium: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Trapezium: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. trapezium: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

(Note: See trapezia as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (geometry, British, Australia, New Zealand) A quadrilateral with two sides parallel.
noun:  (restrictively) A quadrilateral with two sides parallel and two sides non-parallel.
noun:  (geometry, US, dated) A four-sided polygon with no parallel sides and no sides equal; a simple convex irregular quadrilateral.
noun:  (anatomy) The trapezium bone of the wrist.
noun:  A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.

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