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Trapezium

noun
(pl. E. trapeziums, L. trapezia)
1.
A quadrilateral with no parallel sides.  Antonym: parallelogram.
2.
A multiple star in the constellation of Orion.
3.
The wrist bone on the thumb side of the hand that articulates with the 1st and 2nd metacarpals.  Synonyms: os trapezium, trapezium bone.



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... forming a correct opinion, i.e., the real powers and merits of De Vico's great refractor at the Collegio Romano. De Vico's accounts of it appear to me to have not a little of the extra-marvellous in them. Saturn's two close satellites regularly observed—eight stars in the trapezium of Orion! [Greek: a] Aquilae (as Schumacher inquiringly writes to me) divided into three! the supernumerary divisions of Saturn's ring well seen, &c., &c. And all by a Cauchoix refractor of eight inches? I fear me that these wonders are not for female eyes, the good monks are too well ...
— Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville • Mary Somerville


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