Trapezium: Definition and part of speech

Trapezium

  1. n. A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.
  2. n. A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.
  3. n. A bone of the carpus at the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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