trapezoidal
- adjective
- /træˈpɛzɔɪdəl/
- US
- The roof of the building has a unique trapezoidal shape that sets it apart from other structures.
- trapezoidal cross section
Examples
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Being 12 meters wide at the bottom and 6 meters wide at the top, the dam had a distinct trapezoidal cross-sectional shape that was not uniform.
Academic text (1995) -
The architectural forms of Piacentini's propylaea were derived from Bernini's upper trapezoidal piazza.
Academic text (2006) -
We're going to be doing another trapezoidal rule problem today.
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We're going to be doing some trapezoidal rule problems today.
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What we notice is that we get a trapezoidal sort of a waveform.
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I prefer a square-shaped ball bag; some of them come in a more trapezoidal shape.
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Trapezoidal fuzzy numbers are used to present the fuzzy parameters in the model.
Academic text (2018) -
The mixture of kitchen and green wastes is piled in a trapezoidal form, 2.5 meters wide, 4 meters long, and 1.5 meters high.
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The ball screw jacks feature low-profile internal return ball nuts, while the machine screw jacks are fitted with bronze trapezoidal nuts.
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Menu-driven software is used to select the major velocity motion profiles of the AIM 4500 system, including the trapezoidal, triangular, parabolic, and S-curve profiles.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
On the upper back and neck where a large muscle is, or that has a slanted four-sided shape
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Trapezoidal comes from trapezoid, which goes back to the Greek word trapeza meaning 'table'. Imagine a table top with two sides longer than the others — that four-sided 'table' shape is a trapezoid, so trapezoidal means 'having that shape'.