pyramidal
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pyramid (ˈpɪrəmɪd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a huge masonry construction that has a square base and, as in the case of the ancient Egyptian royal tombs, four sloping triangular sides |
| 2. | an object, formation, or structure resembling such a construction |
| 3. | maths a solid having a polygonal base and triangular sides that meet in a common vertex |
| 4. | crystallog a crystal form in which three planes intersect all three axes of the crystal |
| 5. | anatomy any pointed or cone-shaped bodily structure or part |
| 6. | finance a group of enterprises containing a series of holding companies structured so that the top holding company controls the entire group with a relatively small proportion of the total capital invested |
| 7. | chiefly (US) the series of transactions involved in pyramiding securities |
| 8. | (plural) a game similar to billiards with fifteen coloured balls |
| —vb | |
| 9. | to build up or be arranged in the form of a pyramid |
| 10. | chiefly (US) to speculate in (securities or property) by increasing purchases on additional margin or collateral derived from paper profits associated with high prices of securities and property in a boom |
| 11. | finance to form (companies) into a pyramid |
| [C16 (earlier pyramis): from Latin pyramis, from Greek puramis, probably from Egyptian] | |
| pyramidal | |
| —adj | |
| pyra'midical | |
| —adj | |
| pyra'midic | |
| —adj | |
| py'ramidally | |
| —adv | |
| pyra'midically | |
| —adv | |
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Pyramidal
is always a great word to know.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
Example sentences
Walk swiftly past its pyramidal entrance, tossing a smug wave to the suckers standing in line.
In one place, in midstream, a pyramidal rock thrust itself six feet above the surface of the river.
It is a natural consequence of the pyramidal shape of any human grouping since long.
These tall, singular landforms are also called pyramidal peaks.
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