It is constructed in the shape of a dome, with six trapezoidal side windows and a circular top window of a little under 80cm, making it the largest window ever built for space.

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Below the rear bumper, in the fascia, the exhaust is routed to the midline of the car and finished with a trapezoidal steel bezel.

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Surrounded by the university's Gothic Revival buildings on one side and the city's traditional main street on the other, the trapezoidal museum evokes a shimmering spaceship from a distant world.

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Instead, the Focus gets a powerful triptych-trapezoidal grille, which makes the car instantly recognizable at a distance what designers call "down the road" graphic.

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To maintain an accurate image, the XV-Z15000 includes Keystone Correction, which corrects spherical, cylindrical and trapezoidal distortion of an image on a flat screen.

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