Trapezium
Trapezium, describing a geometric shape, has two contradictory meanings:
- Outside the US and Canada: a quadrilateral with at least one pair of parallel sides (known in the US as a trapezoid)
- In the US and Canada: a quadrilateral with no parallel sides (known elsewhere as a general irregular quadrilateral)
Comparisons of "trapezium" in both British and American English.
Trapezium can also mean:
- Trapezium (bone), a bone in the wrist
- Trapezium (astronomy), a group of stars in the Orion Nebula
- Trapezium (play), by Henry Rathvon
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