Trapeze

name, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun

1
A trapezium. archaic
2
a swing used by circus acrobats wordnet
3
A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.
4
The trapezium bone.
"[…] the distance between the top of the flexor retinaculum and an imaginary line drawn between the trapeze and the hamate."
5
A certain yo-yo trick.
"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."

Verb

1
To swing on or as on a trapeze.

Proper Noun

1
A mountain on the Courbet Peninsula, Grande Terre, Kerguelen Islands of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.

Synonyms

dumbbell figure horse trampoline trapezium triangle

Example

"Important geometric figures, that are triangle, square, rectangle, circle, parallelogram and trapeze."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

From trapèze - French for trapezium, named so by Edgar Aubert de la Rüe due to the mountain's shape.

Related phrases

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