trapeze
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French trapèze, from Latin trapezium. Doublet of trapezium.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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.
- 2013, World Health Organization, Manual of Diagnostic Ultrasound (volume 2, page 463)
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
trapezium — see trapezium
swinging horizontal bar
VerbEdit
trapeze (third-person singular simple present trapezes, present participle trapezing, simple past and past participle trapezed)
- To swing on a trapeze
Further readingEdit
- Trapeze in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- Trapeze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia