different between trapezium vs trampoline

English

Etymology

Recorded since 1570, learned borrowing from Late Latin trapezium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (trapézion, “irregular quadrilateral”, literally “a little table”), diminutive of ??????? (trápeza, “table”). Doublet of trapeze.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???pi?.zi.?m/

• (General American, also) IPA^(key): /t?æ?pi.zi.?m/

Noun

trapezium (plural trapeziums or trapezia)

1. (geometry, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A four-sided polygon with two sides parallel
2. (geometry, US, dated) A four-sided polygon with no parallel sides and no sides equal; a simple convex irregular quadrilateral.
3. (anatomy) The trapezium bone of the wrist.
4. 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.

Usage notes

• (geometry): The terms trapezium and trapezoid have swapped meanings in the US and Canada as compared with the rest of the world.

Synonyms

• (archaic) trapeze
• (geometry, British, four-sided polygon with two parallel sides): (US) trapezoid
• (geometry, US, four-sided polygon with no sides parallel and no equal sides): (British) trapezoid, (British) irregular quadrilateral.

Related terms

• trapeze
• trapeziform
• trapezius
• trapezoid

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin trapezium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (trapézion, “irregular quadrilateral”), diminutive of ??????? (trápeza, “table”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr??pe?z??m/

Noun

trapezium n (plural trapeziums or trapezia, diminutive trapeziumpje n)

1. (geometry) A trapezium, trapezoid, a quadrilateral with two sides parallel

Related terms

• trapezoïde

Latin

Etymology

Late Latin; from Ancient Greek ????????? (trapézion, “irregular quadrilateral”, literally “a little table”), diminutive of ??????? (trápeza, “table”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tra?pez.zi.um/, [t??ä?p?z?d??z?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tra?ped.d?zi.um/, [t????p?d???z?ium]

Noun

trapezium n (genitive trapezi? or trapez?); second declension

1. trapezium, trapezoid (four-sided shape with no sides parallel and no equal sides)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

English

Etymology

From Spanish trampolín and/or Italian trampolino; in English, a genericized trademark based on the Spanish word trademarked in 1936.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t?æmp??li?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?æmp?li?n/

Noun

trampoline (plural trampolines)

1. A gymnastic and recreational device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs as anchors.
2. (uncountable) A competitive sport in which athletes are judged on routines of tricks performed on a trampoline.

   Synonym: trampolining

3. (programming) Any of a variety of looping or jumping instructions in specific programming languages

Translations

Verb

trampoline (third-person singular simple present trampolines, present participle trampolining, simple past and past participle trampolined)

1. (intransitive) To jump as if on a trampoline.
2. (transitive, programming) To rewrite (computer code) to use the looping or jumping instructions called trampolines.

   trampolined code

Derived terms

• trampoliner
• trampolinist

Further reading

• Trampoline (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Trampolining on Wikiversity.Wikiversity

Dutch

Alternative forms

• trampolin (obsolete)
• tremplin (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from either Italian trampolino or Spanish trampolín (itself from Italian).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tr?m.po??li.n?/
• Hyphenation: tram?po?li?ne
• Rhymes: -in?

Noun

trampoline m (plural trampolines)

1. A trampoline.

See also

• springplank

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish trampolín or Italian trampolino. See also French tremplin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???.p?.lin/

Noun

trampoline m (plural trampolines)

1. (gymnastics) trampoline
2. (programming) trampoline

Further reading

• “trampoline” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian trampolino

Noun

trampoline m (definite singular trampolinen, indefinite plural trampoliner, definite plural trampolinene)

1. a trampoline

References

• “trampoline” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian trampolino

Noun

trampoline m (definite singular trampolinen, indefinite plural trampolinar, definite plural trampolinane)

1. a trampoline

References

• “trampoline” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.