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- Pyramid - n. - A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this shape.
- Pyramid - n. - A solid figure contained by a plane rectilineal figure as base and several triangles which have a common vertex and whose bases are sides of the base.
- Pyramid - n. - The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot.
- Pyramidal - a. - Of or pertaining to a pyramid; in the form of a a pyramid; pyramidical; as, pyramidal cleavage.
- Pyramidal - a. - Same as Tetragonal.
- Pyramidal - n. - One of the carpal bones. See Cuneiform, n., 2 (b).
- Pyramidally - adv. - Like a pyramid.
- Pyramides - pl. - of Pyramis
- Pyramidia - pl. - of Pyramidion
- Pyramidic - a. - Alt. of Pyramidical
- Pyramidical - a. - Of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form of a pyramid; pyramidal.
- Pyramidion - n. - The small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk.
- Pyramidoid - n. - A solid resembling a pyramid; -- called also pyramoid.
- Dihexagonal - a. - Consisting of two hexagonal parts united; thus, a dihexagonal pyramid is composed of two hexagonal pyramids placed base to base.
- Bipyramidal - a. - Consisting of two pyramids placed base to base; having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals.
- Right - a. - Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone.
- Pyramidion - n. - The small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk.
- Obelisk - n. - An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.
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