trapeze

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹəˈpiːz/

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• Rhymes: -iːz

trapeze (plural trapezes)

1. (archaic, geometry) A trapezium.
2. A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by gymnasts.
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.

• trapeze artist
• trapeze dress
• trapezist

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.

• Trapeze in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Trapeze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia