trapeze
English edit
Etymology edit
From French trapèze, from Latin trapezium. Doublet of trapezium.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
trapeze (plural trapezes)
- (archaic, geometry) A trapezium.
- A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by gymnasts.
- (anatomy) The trapezium bone.
- 2013, World Health Organization, Manual of Diagnostic Ultrasound, volume 2, page 463:
- […] the distance between the top of the flexor retinaculum and an imaginary line drawn between the trapeze and the hamate.
- A certain yo-yo trick.
- 2011, Karen Krossing, The Yo-Yo Prophet, page 81:
- I begin a roller-coaster trick by throwing a trapeze, making the yo-yo loop around the finger of my left hand and then land back on the string.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
trapezium — see trapezium
swinging horizontal bar
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Verb edit
trapeze (third-person singular simple present trapezes, present participle trapezing, simple past and past participle trapezed)
- To swing on or as on a trapeze.
Further reading edit
- Trapeze in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- Trapeze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia