trapeze

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See also: Trapeze and trapèze

English

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Woman on a trapeze.

Etymology

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From French trapèze, from Latin trapezium. Doublet of trapezium.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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trapeze (plural trapezes)

  1. (archaic, geometry) A trapezium.
  2. A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.
  3. (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.
  4. A certain yo-yo trick.
    • 2011, Karen Krossing, The Yo-Yo Prophet, page 81:
      I begin a roller-coaster trick by throwing a trapeze, making the yo-yo loop around the finger of my left hand and then land back on the string.

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Verb

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trapeze (third-person singular simple present trapezes, present participle trapezing, simple past and past participle trapezed)

  1. To swing on or as on a trapeze.

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