pyramid
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- noun
- /ˈpɪrəmɪd/
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pirámide
- In geometry class, we learned how to calculate the volume of a pyramid with a square base.
- a pyramid shape
They are not rectangles, they are not pyramids, they are spheres.
- They are not rectangles, they are not pyramids, they are spheres.
- So the base of my my pyramid is, is just kind of not there.
- And so you're releasing electrons not just for one single pyramid, but every pyramid on that site.
- And it was very like very dull black, but, but very clean pyramid shape on the top.
- It's often shown in this triangle, this pyramid.
- Upside down would be well, would be an upside down pyramid and technically at the bottom of it.
Examples
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So if you want to build a really high pyramid, it also has to have a really wide base.
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A perfect pyramid.
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And I do like this little pyramid thing on top here.
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This blue pyramid, just guess what it might be.
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Do you remember the shape of the pyramid?
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You know, when I close my eyes I see a pyramid.
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Now, the pyramid is based on the triangle, which has three sides.
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It's piled up in this great big pyramid.
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With its three-story glass pyramid lit at night, that building gets high marks from me.
Fiction book (1995) -
Richie's here, building a pyramid of sugar cubes.
Compounds
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A dishonest plan where people pay to join and only earn money by recruiting others, not by selling things
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A very large ancient Egyptian tomb for Pharaoh Khufu at Giza with a square base and four triangle-shaped sides
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A diagram showing who eats whom in an ecosystem, from plants to top predators
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A very large ancient Egyptian tomb in Giza built for the king Khufu about 2600 BC
A tall plant with a stalk and pale green flowers that grows on dry sunny hills in western US
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A solid with a flat base with all sides equal and triangular faces that meet at one top point
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A solid shape with a square base and four triangular faces that meet at a top point
Surface Forms
Etymology
In geometry the word pyramid keeps the same idea as the Egyptian tombs named pyramis: a solid with a flat base and triangular faces that all meet at one top point, so the shape itself gives the name and meaning.