Orionis, also called the trapezium of Orion) is in itself the most striking multiple star in the whole heavens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Heavens] Reference

Or maybe it's called a trapezium.    From Wordnik.com.  [podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & history] Reference

It was the size of — and as oddly shaped a trapezium as — a bad West Village studio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire Island, This Time] Reference

If none of the sides of a quadrangle are parallel, as in Figure 71, it is termed a trapezium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference

Rogov laid one hand on the man's shoulder and pressed in gently, finding the sensitive nerve endings embedded in the trapezium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic Fire]

There was a curious thirteenth-century chest, trapezium in form, and said to be the only one of that shape in the West of England.    From Wordnik.com.  [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference

For instance, the term quadrilateral, or four-sided rectilinear figure, is correctly divided into square, oblong, rhombus, rhomboid and trapezium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deductive Logic] Reference

This star, when observed with a telescope of low power, can be at once resolved into four separate lucent points, so arranged as to form a quadrilateral figure or trapezium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference

These four streets surrounded this trapezium like a moat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

It towered over everything, and was shaped like a trapezium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across Unknown South America] Reference

The enceinte of Nineveh forms thus an irregular trapezium, or a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference

In this manner they crossed the inner trapezium of the barricade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

The area of trapezium is 276m2 and its parallel sides are 6m and 30m.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

A trapezium has no sides that are parallel, but they can be of equal length.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pioneer Woman - Full RSS Feed] Reference

—The Greater Multangular Bone (os multangulum majus; trapezium) (Fig. 225).    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 6b. The Hand. 1. The Carpus] Reference

It also has a twin trapezium suspension, which enables all kinds of regulations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jalopnik] Reference

Tr, trapezium; Trd, trapezoid; U, unciform. doi: 10.1371 / journal. pone.0004366.g007.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Qualium ergo partium pa - rabola cft 1 5, eanim trapezium AEFC eft x 8. & triangulum A BC r 2.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opera geometrica] Reference

With this instrument he worked diligently, and detected the sixth star in the trapezium of Orion.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.]

It has a Standard number of frets (22) with nicely made trapezium-like pearl inlays which look superb.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference

Archer, which follows it, and traces an oblique trapezium in the sky, a little to the east of Antares.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astronomy for Amateurs] Reference

It was in this sort of fold in the interior trapezium of the barricade, that Eponine had breathed her last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

I aligned his trapezium (back of knee) and his wither as best I could - note how the skeleton had to be tilted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horsetalk.co.nz Headlines] Reference

A three-inch telescope resolves th Orionis into the famous trapezium, and a nine-inch instrument sees two stars more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work] Reference

The characteristic form of Cartesia, an inverted trapezium, is related on a rationally based design that implies handles.    From Wordnik.com.  [AMNP] Reference

The frame of the base appears orthogonal but in actual fact is a trapezium for adapting to the line of the back and seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [FAZED] Reference

To return to our telescopic observations: -- The trapezium affords a useful test for the light-gathering power of the telescope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction.] Reference

Their circuit may in everyday speech be called a square, though strict mathematical accuracy must pronounce it to be a trapezium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine] Reference

But if it has triangles and trapezium inside it u can calculate the area of those triangles and trapezium and then sum all of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

A grand trapezium of four stars on the celestial sphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astronomy for Amateurs] Reference

Debilissima quadruple, and easily bring out the companion of Sirius or the sixth star in the trapezium of Orion. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference