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Trapezium
The term
trapezium
can mean more than one thing:
In
human anatomy
,
trapezium
is a bone in the hand
In
geometry
, a trapezium is also a name for a class of
quadrilaterals
. The precise definition differs between American English and British English, as described in that article; see also
trapezoid
.
In
astronomy
, a grouping of four young stars (an
open cluster
) and the associated gas in the
Orion Nebula
.
[1]
In
theatre
, a
play
by
Henry Rathvon
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