1. (Géométrie) Quadrilatère plan dont deux côtés sont parallèles mais inégaux.
2. Appareil de gymnastique ou de cirque constitué d'une barre horizontale suspendue par ses deux bouts.
3. Muscle du cou et de l'épaule.
4. Os du carpe.
ETYM Cf. French trapčze.
A swing used by circus acrobats.
A gymnastic or acrobatic apparatus consisting of a short horizontal bar suspended by two parallel ropes.
ETYM Greek, trapezoid-shaped; trapes table + eidos shape, likeness: cf. French trapézoďde. Related to Trapezium.
(in US) A quadrilateral with two parallel sides.
In geometry, a four-sided plane figure (quadrilateral) with only two sides parallel. If the parallel sides have lengths a and b and the perpendicular distance between them is h (the height of the trapezoid), its area A=˝h(a + b).
An isosceles trapezoid has its sloping sides (legs) equal, is symmetrical about a line drawn through the midpoints of its parallel sides, and has equal base angles.