trapezoids
- plural of trapezoid.
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You can also hear the shape of parallelograms and acute trapezoids, according to a 2015 paper by Rowlett and Zhiqin Lu, a mathematician at the University of California, Irvine.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 28, 2022
The back half of the bike frame is a mess of intersecting triangles and trapezoids.
From The Verge ● Sep. 15, 2021
Love triangles, trapezoids and pentagons quickly collapse into existential loneliness and supernatural weirdness.
From Washington Post ● May 9, 2017
Printed as trapezoids and hung within rectangular frames, the photographs also refer to the history of shaped canvases in painting.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2017
But the way I see it through my Adah eyes it is a flat plank clipped into pieces, rectangles and trapezoids, by the skinny black-line shadows of tall palm trunks.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
