What is a trapezoid'?
US DefinitionA trapezoid is a closed plane figure consisting of four line segments/sides; two of these line segments are parallel (but not equal in length) and two are nonparallel.(in the UK, this is called a trapezium)British DefinitionA trapezoid is a closed plane figure consisting of four line segments/sides; NONE of these line segments are parallel to any of the other line segments of the quadrilateral.(in the US this is just a quadrilateral)*(see the related links for images of trapezoids)