Sentence examples for trapezoidal from inspiring English sources

So pains have been taken to provide for "interstitial spaces" or airlocks between works.The public will enter the gallery through a vaulted, trapezoidal lobby, cut into the hillside, to be greeted by an enormous light box showing Jeff Wall's "Untangling", a mesmerising image of a man in overalls amid tangled ropes and machines in a boat-shed.

Mr Smith's innovation is to introduce a gradual taper that instead creates an elongated cone perfect for turbine towers.The approach uses steel directly from a mill, cut into trapezoidal sheets, a process that results in no waste and stackable sheets that can fit on roads and under bridges.

The B-type connectors come typically in three different shapes and sizes: a squarish connector found mainly on the backs of printers and scanners; a small, trapezoidal Mini-B common on older phones and cameras; and a flatter Micro-B connector used extensively these days on tablets and mobile phones.

His collection featured proportionate, well-cut pants, rigidly constructed clothes with smooth "trapeze," or trapezoidal, lines, and short skirts, with white midcalf boots and large, dark glasses as accessories.

The qānūn trapezoidal zither of the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Asia a type of psaltery may have upwards of 70 strings, generally in courses of three.

A constructed ditch usually is trapezoidal in section with side banks flat enough to be stable.

Pyramid, in architecture, a monumental structure constructed of or faced with stone or brick and having a rectangular base and four sloping triangular (or sometimes trapezoidal) sides meeting at an apex (or truncated to form a platform).

The trapezoidal dulcimer, or sanṭūr, the strings of which are struck with two thin sticks, is widespread and is especially prominent in Persian art music.

During that time there were also attempts to distinguish between small variations, so that commentators wrote of fleur-de-lis au pied coupé or au pied nourri, in which the feet are absent or are replaced by a trapezoidal pedestal.

A roughly trapezoidal stretch of ground, it was bare save for three plants essential to Mediterranean agriculture: the grape, the fig, and the olive.

A variety of weirs have been used in streams, the so-called sharp-crested and trapezoidal forms being relatively common; but broad-crested, triangular, and contracted weirs are also favoured in certain circumstances.