Trivium

trivium

[′triv·ē·əm]

(invertebrate zoology)

The three rays opposite the madreporite in starfish.

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Trivium

 

the three humanities of grammar, rhetoric, and logic, which constituted the first and most important group of the seven liberal arts during the Middle Ages. The trivium was taught in the faculties of arts of universities and at Jesuit colleges.

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