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Trapezium

noun

(pl. E. trapeziums, L. trapezia)

A quadrilateral with no parallel sides.

A multiple star in the constellation of Orion.

The wrist bone on the thumb side of the hand that articulates with the 1st and 2nd metacarpals. Synonyms: os trapezium, trapezium bone.

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"Trapezium" Quotes from Famous Books

... forming a correct opinion, i.e., the real powers and merits of De Vico's great refractor at the Collegio Romano. De Vico's accounts of it appear to me to have not a little of the extra-marvellous in them. Saturn's two close satellites regularly observed—eight stars in the trapezium of Orion! [Greek: a] Aquilae (as Schumacher inquiringly writes to me) divided into three! the supernumerary divisions of Saturn's ring well seen, &c., &c. And all by a Cauchoix refractor of eight inches? I fear me that these wonders are not for female eyes, the good monks are too well ...

— Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville • Mary Somerville

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