Trapezium
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The term trapezium can mean more than one thing:
- In geometry, a trapezium is the British name for a quadrilateral with a pair of parallel sides, and the American name for a quadrilateral without parallel sides. See also trapezoid.
- In astronomy, trapezium is a grouping of four young stars (an open cluster) and the associated gas in the Orion Nebula. [1]
- In theatre, a play in iambic pentameter by Henry Rathvon.
- In physiology, the trapezium is a bone in the wrist at the base of the thumb.
