Definition of Pyramid

Pyramid

To enlarge one's holding or interest in a series of operations on a continued rise or decline by using the profits to buy or sell additional amounts on a margin, as where one buys on a 10% margin 100 shares of stock quoted at 100, holds it till it rises to 105, and then uses the paper profit to buy 50 shares more, etc. The series of operations constitutes a pyramid.

To use, or to deal in, in a pyramiding transaction. See Pyramid, v. i.

The series of operations involved in pyramiding. See Pyramid, v. i.

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.

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.

The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot.

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Pyramid Quotations

I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary.
Mitch Hedberg

Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.
Rodney Dangerfield

The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert.
Pierre Loti

It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
Zahi Hawass

I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.
Zahi Hawass

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
Adam Sedgwick

Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.
Bernard Katz

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Pyramid Translations

pyramid in Dutch is piramide
pyramid in French is pyramide
pyramid in German is Pyramide
pyramid in Italian is piramide

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