They are rectangular or trapezoidal in shape with a small enclosing chamber faced with large slabs of stone set on end and sometimes subdivided into smaller compartments.

However, swords could narrow down to the shinogi, then narrow further to the blade, or even expand outward towards the shinogi then shrink to the blade ( producing a trapezoidal shape ).

The most common shape of membership functions is triangular, although trapezoidal and bell curves are also used, but the shape is generally less important than the number of curves and their placement.

However, rather than the usual trapezoidal shape of a gaff sail, it is triangular, like a Bermuda rig.

A shock can be characterized by the peak acceleration, the duration, and the shape of the shock pulse ( half sine, triangular, trapezoidal, etc .).

It covers an area of 6. 2 acres and is trapezoidal in shape.

Although described as a " square " sail, this term refers not to a sail's shape but to it and its yard being rigged square to the keel of the vessel rather than in line with it or " fore and aft "; the topsail was and is always trapezoidal, the lengths of the upper yards being progressively smaller the higher they are.

The occipital bone, a saucer-shaped membrane bone situated at the back and lower part of the cranium, is trapezoidal in shape and curved on itself.

In contrast, the design of the East Building by architect I. M. Pei is rigorously geometrical, dividing the trapezoidal shape of the site into two triangles: one isosceles and the other a smaller right triangle.

Roughly trapezoidal in shape, it measures around 10 km east to west and 7 km north to south and has about of coastline and a surface area of.

The scutellum body is typically half of an inch long, green or brown color, usually trapezoidal in shape, giving this family the name " shield bug ".

The pins and tails have a trapezoidal shape.

Federally-mandated side marker lights were of an inverted trapezoidal shape on the lower leading edges of the front fenders.

The homes of the STK people show a slight modification that became a major feature of later cultures: one end of the long house was made shorter than the other to achieve a trapezoidal shape.

The ballpark site was thus trapezoidal in shape and large for the Deadball Era.

They are characterized by a distinct trapezoidal shape when viewed from the side, although the earlier period tended to have a much shorter flattened top section than the later did.

In general, however, the body pattern consists of a series of dorsolateral blotches, rectangular or trapezoidal in shape, which extend from the first scale row to the middle of the back.

From above its architectural shape, unusual among the River Houses, resembles a branching flowchart due to the odd trapezoidal footprint of the land on which it was built.

The suburb has a roughly trapezoidal shape, and at its greatest extent is no more than 1 kilometre long by 200 metres wide.

The pectoral fins are short and roughly trapezoidal in shape.

* Palazzo Carmignani, a landmark building built in the 20th century, it presents a trapezoidal shape, appearing between piazza del Sale, strada Ricasoli and via Mazzini.

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester rebuilt the house after a " great fire " in 1428, there were four wings in a trapezoidal shape around a courtyard.

They are generally endless, and their general cross-section shape is trapezoidal.

The Palazzo dei Conservatori was also to be restored, and a new building, the so-called Palazzo Nuovo, built at the same angle on the north side of the piazza to offset the Conservatori, creating a trapezoidal piazza.

The facade with its chiaroscuro half-domed portico and concave side wings, closely resembles a theatrical stage set and the church facade projects forward so that it substantially fills the tiny trapezoidal piazza.

The elliptical center of the piazza, which contrasts with the trapezoidal entrance, encloses the visitor with " the maternal arms of Mother Church " in Bernini's expression.

The trapezoidal piazza is defined by four buildings.

The museums are contained in three palazzi surrounding a central trapezoidal piazza in a plan conceived by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1536 and executed over a period of more than 400 years.

The center spans are twin steel trapezoidal girders which also support a lightweight concrete deck.

* < div id =" box "> Box: A trapezoidal indentation in the ground with a metal or fiberglass covering at the end of the runway in which vaulters " plant " their pole.

A more powerful Cardassian ship is the Keldon class starship ( which is similar to the Galor-class with more defined aft wings and a large trapezoidal pod atop the main hull ).

In the new style, the King's head is more trapezoidal with a slightly smaller and undecorated crown, he has a huge nose ( even bigger than Rodney's ) which covers his mouth and chin, and when he opens his mouth it appears that his beard has been shaved off.

Along with her sister Isis, Nephthys represented the temple pylon or trapezoidal tower gateway entrance to the temple which also displayed the flagstaff.

Interpolation with polynomials evaluated at equally spaced points in b yields the Newton – Cotes formulas, of which the rectangle rule and the trapezoidal rule are examples.

Most standard telemark boots have a trapezoidal " duckbill " at the front, which interfaces boots with the binding.

Its buildings are typical of the Puuc style, with smooth low walls that open on ornate friezes based on representations of typical Maya huts, which are represented by columns ( representing the reeds with which were built the walls of the huts ) and trapezoidal shapes ( representing the thatched roofs ), entwined snakes and, in many cases two-headed snakes, masks of the rain god, Chaac with its big noses that represent the rays of the storms, and feathered serpents with open fangs leaving from the same human beings.

The facade of the building features faux-stone over the staircases, which project from the building, and a series of white and brown gravel coated concrete panels, each containing a trapezoidal window.

Ostrom ’ s skeletal reconstruction of Deinonychus included a very unusual pelvic bone – a pubis which was trapezoidal and flat, unlike that of other theropods, but which was the same length as the ischium and which was found right next to it.

The name is believed to be derived from Pax, which meant trapezoidal in their language.

The term was eventually associated with the trapezoidal gusli-psaltyry ( which may have originated in Byzantium ).

The elaborate ornamentation of the exterior consists of pilaster-strips, a broad frieze of two plain string-courses between which is a blind arcade of round-headed arches whose short vertical pilasters have trapezoidal capitals and bases, while on the eastern gable and the corners adjacent there is a series of mouldings as vertical triple semi-cylinders.

The site was provided by the City of London Corporation and the Worshipful Company of Mercers, and is trapezoidal, flanked by the streets of Cornhill and Threadneedle Street which converge at Bank junction.

On 18 October 2005, KPF submitted an alternative design to Mori Building and a trapezoidal hole replaced the circle at the top of the tower, which in addition to changing the controversial design, would also be cheaper and easier to implement according to the architects.

The trapezoidal rule is one of a family of formulas for numerical integration called Newton – Cotes formulas, of which the midpoint rule is similar to the trapezoid rule.

Simpson's rule is another member of the same family, and in general has faster convergence than the trapezoidal rule for functions which are twice continuously differentiable, though not in all specific cases.

Moreover, the trapezoidal rule tends to become extremely accurate when periodic functions are integrated over their periods, which can be analyzed in various ways.

For non-periodic functions, however, methods with unequally spaced points such as Gaussian quadrature and Clenshaw – Curtis quadrature are generally far more accurate ; Clenshaw – Curtis quadrature can be viewed as a change of variables to express arbitrary integrals in terms of periodic integrals, at which point the trapezoidal rule can be applied accurately.

To accommodate this demand, the engineers implemented a current Audi front-end design which includes the trapezoidal " Audi Single-Frame Grille ," the company's trademark overlapping four rings, and the Multi Media Interface ( MMI ) driver-to-car control system.

In either rectangular or trapezoidal implementations, the filtering produces a map, which is then bi – or trilinearly filtered, using the same filtering algorithms used to filter the square maps of traditional mipmapping.