An Associate of Arts is an academic transfer degree designed for students who will ultimately be pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree at a four-year college/university that is not math or science oriented. Examples of this type of four-year degree are: Business, Liberal Arts, History, Speech, Music, Education, Criminal Justice, etc.
Quadrilaterals which have one pair of parallel sides are called trapezoids. Sides that are parallel are called bases of a trapezoid, and ones that are not parallel are called legs. Trapezoids whose legs are of equal length are called isosceles trapezoids. Diagonals of a isosceles trapezoids are congruent.
First and fore most a Trapezoid is a quadrilateral which is a 4 sided plane shape. 1  It has 4 lines. 2  It is a closed shape. 3  Two of the lines are parallel.  It is a simple quadrilateral - meaning the sum of it's angles is 360 1  degrees. A Trapezoid is a Trapezoid and cannot be named anything else.