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   pyramid

   /ˈpɪrəmɪd/

   noun

   • 1. a monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt.
   • 2. an object, shape, or arrangement in the form of a pyramid: "a pyramid of logs"
   • ▪ a polyhedron of which one face is a polygon of any number of sides, and the other faces are triangles with a common vertex: "a three-sided pyramid"
   • ▪ a structure of more or less pyramidal form, especially in the brain or the renal medulla.
   • ▪ an organization or system that is structured with fewer people or things at each level as one approaches the top: "the lowest strata of the social pyramid"
   • ▪ a game played on a billiard table with fifteen coloured balls arranged in a triangle and a cue ball.
   • 3. a system of financial growth achieved by a small initial investment, with subsequent investments being funded by using unrealized profits as collateral: "the eventual collapse of illegal pyramids"
   • ▪ short for pyramid scheme

   verb

   • 1. stack or arrange in the shape of a pyramid.
   • 2. achieve a substantial return on (money or property) after making a small initial investment: "a bank can pyramid modest capital into an enormous sum of money"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the geometrical sense): via Latin from Greek puramis, puramid-, of unknown ultimate origin.

   Derivatives

   • 1. pyramidic adjective
   • 2. pyramidical adjective
   • 3. pyramidically adverb

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   What does pyramid mean?

   • Blossom Word Game Pick the best words! Spelling Bee Quiz Can you outdo past winners of the National Spelli... The meaning of PYRAMID is an ancient massive structure found especially in Egypt having typically a square ground plan, outside walls in the form of four triangles that meet in a point at the top, and inner sepulchral chambers.

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   What is a pyramid structure?

   • figurative Many organizations have a pyramid structure (= there are fewer people at the top levels of them than there are at the bottom). We went on a sightseeing tour to the pyramids at Giza. The pyramid is 50 meters high and 100 meters round the base. A cube and a pyramid are both solids.

   PYRAMID | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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   What is an example of a pyramid?

   • A pyramid is also a representation of a system with more items at the bottom and fewer at the top, for example, of the effect that one living thing has on another in the food chain. In this way, the press would manufacture news stories which had virtually no kernel of factual content, pyramids of accusation and counteraccusation.

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   What is a triangular pyramid?

   • The Trylon, a triangular pyramid was erected for the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing, Queens and demolished after the Fair closed. The Ballandean Pyramid, at Ballandean in rural Queensland is a 15-metre folly pyramid made from blocks of local granite.

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   A pyramid (from Ancient Greek πυραμίς (puramís) 'pyramid') is a structure whose visible surfaces are triangular and converge to a point at the top, making the shape roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense. The base of a pyramid can be of any polygon shape, such as trilateral or quadrilateral.

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   A pyramid is a solid shape with a square base and four triangular sides, or a pile of things that has the same shape. Learn more about the different types of pyramids, such as the ancient Egyptian ones, the biological ones, and the organizational ones.

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   a number of persons or things arranged or heaped up in this manner: a pyramid of acrobats; a pyramid of boxes. a system or structure resembling a pyramid, as in hierarchical form. Geometry. a solid having a polygonal base, and triangular sides that meet in a point.

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   A pyramid is a three-dimensional shape with a polygonal base and triangular faces. Learn about different types of pyramids, their properties, formulas and examples with BYJU'S Maths.

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    Learn the meaning of pyramid as a building, a shape, an object or a system with fewer people at each level. See pictures, pronunciation and example sentences from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.