Trapezium vs Trampoline - What's the difference?
trapezium | trampoline |
(geometry, British) A four-sided polygon with two sides parallel; a trapezoid (modern sense)
(geometry, US) A four-sided polygon with no parallel sides and no sides equal; a simple convex irregular quadrilateral.
(anatomy) The trapezium bone of the wrist.
A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.
A gymnastic and recreational device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs as anchors.
(programming) Any of a variety of looping or jumping instructions in specific programming languages
To jump as if on a trampoline
* {{quote-book, 2007, Zoe Sharp, First Drop
, passage=My heart trampolined into my throat as I watched Lonnie's grip tighten on the stock of his own shotgun
(programming) To rewrite computer code to use trampolines
As nouns the difference between trapezium and trampoline
is that trapezium is a four-sided polygon with two sides parallel; a trapezoid (modern sense while trampoline is a gymnastic and recreational device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs as anchors.As a verb trampoline is
to jump as if on a trampoline.trapezium
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(en-noun)Usage notes
* The terms (trapezium) and (trapezoid) have partially swapped meanings in the US and Canada as compared with the rest of the world.Synonyms
* (US) trapezoid * (British) irregular quadrilateral.trampoline
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Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia trampoline)Derived terms
* trampoliner * trampolining * trampolinistVerb
(trampolin)citation
- trampolined code