pyramid
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- noun
- /ˈpɪrəmɪd/
- In geometry class, we learned how to calculate the volume of a pyramid with a square base.
- a pyramid shape
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Watch on YouTubeThey 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.
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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
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A solid shape with a square base and four triangular faces that meet at a top point
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A pyramid with the top cut off by a flat cut parallel to its base
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A solid with a flat base with all sides equal and triangular faces that meet at one top point
A tall plant with a stalk and pale green flowers that grows on dry sunny hills in western US
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.