trapeze
See also: Trapeze and trapèze
English
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Woman on a trapeze.
Etymology
From French trapèze, from Latin trapezium.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /tɹəˈpiːz/
- Rhymes: -iːz
Noun
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 terms
- trapeze artist
- trapezist
Translations
trapezium — see trapezium
swinging horizontal bar
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Verb
trapeze (third-person singular simple present trapezes, present participle trapezing, simple past and past participle trapezed)
- To swing on a trapeze
Further reading
Trapeze in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911) Trapeze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia