trapeze

See also: Trapeze and trapèze

English

Woman on a trapeze.

Etymology

From French trapèze, from Latin trapezium. Doublet of trapezium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹəˈpiːz/
• Rhymes: -iːz

Noun

trapeze (plural trapezes)

1. (archaic, geometry) A trapezium.
2. A swinging horizontal bar, suspended at each end by a rope; — used by gymnasts.
3. (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.

Derived terms

• trapeze artist
• trapezist

Translations

trapezium — see trapezium

swinging horizontal bar

• Armenian: ճոճաձող (hy) (čočajoł)
• Catalan: trapezi (ca) m
• Galician: trapecio (gl) m
• Hungarian: trapéz (hu)
• Ido: trapezo (io)

• Japanese: 空中ブランコ (kūchūburanko)
• Macedonian: трапез m (trapez)
• Russian: трапе́ция (ru) f (trapécija)
• Spanish: trapecio (es) m

Verb

trapeze (third-person singular simple present trapezes, present participle trapezing, simple past and past participle trapezed)

1. To swing on a trapeze

Further reading

• Trapeze in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Trapeze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia