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Definition of Trapezoids
1. trapezoid [n] - See also: trapezoid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trapezoids
Literary usage of Trapezoids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on Bridge-construction: Being a Text-book on the Design by Thomas Claxton Fidler (1887)
"In the first example the trapezoids are all inverted trusses with vertical posts,
... 43, the trusses are alternately upright and inverted trapezoids, ..."
2. Metrical Geometry: An Elementary Treatise on Mensuration by George Bruce Halsted (1881)
"If to any convenient axis ordinates be dropped from the angular points of any
polygon, the polygon is exhibited as an algebraic sum of trapezoids, ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Equivalent trapezoids, BAAB, lie in the two orthogonal mirror planes that intersect
in the unique 4 (or :) axis. The polyhedron center is the point of ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on Bridge-construction: Being a Text-book on the Design by Thomas Claxton Fidler (1887)
"In the first example the trapezoids are all inverted trusses with vertical posts,
... 43, the trusses are alternately upright and inverted trapezoids, ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on Bridge-construction: Being a Text-book on the Design by Thomas Claxton Fidler (1887)
"In the first example the trapezoids are all inverted trusses with vertical posts,
... 43, the trusses are alternately upright and inverted trapezoids, ..."
6. Plane Geometry by William Betz, Harrison Emmett Webb, Percey Franklyn Smith (1912)
"trapezoids PROPOSITION XXIV. THEOREM 210. If three or more parallels intercept
equal parts on one transversal, they intercept equal parts on every ..."
7. Railroad Curves and Earthwork by Calvin Francis Allen (1914)
"(163) The "Irregular Section," as shown in the figure, may be divided into
trapezoids by vertical lines, as in Fig. 1 ; or into triangles by vertical and ..."