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adjective

Pyramidal adj.

Of or pertaining to a pyramid; in the form of a a pyramid; pyramidical; as, pyramidal cleavage. "The mystic obelisks stand up Triangular, pyramidal."

(Crystallog.) Same as Tetragonal.

Pyramidal numbers (Math.), certain series of figurate numbers expressing the number of balls or points that may be arranged in the form of pyramids. Thus 1, 4, 10, 20, 35, etc., are triangular pyramidal numbers; and 1, 5, 14, 30, 55, etc., are square pyramidal numbers.

noun

Pyramidal n. (Anat.) One of the carpal bones. See Cuneiform, n., 2 (b).

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Etymology of 'Pyramidal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pyramidal" Quotes from Famous Books

... his thin lips. Did those men imagine that he could begin such undertakings and be like a blind man among colors? Some begin thus but are ruined! He understood that in our time immense knowledge is the only foundation for pyramidal fortunes, and his memory alone knew the long series of nights which had passed above his head while it ...

— The Argonauts • Eliza Orzeszko (AKA Orzeszkowa)

... the pyramidal tomb opposite Titian's that was designed to hold his remains. It is now the tomb of Canova. Why it was not put to its maker's purpose, I do not know, but to my mind it is a far finer thing than the Titian monument and ...

— A Wanderer in Venice • E.V. Lucas

... quietude in the cool and pleasant highlands of Ceylon. My health also was now giving me some concern; so on again to Madura, en route to Tuticorin, from whence a steamer would take me across to the land of spicy breezes. Madura has a wonderful old temple of immense size, surrounded by gopuras of pyramidal form, in whose construction huge stones of enormous dimensions were utilized; the temple also has much fine carving, etc. The old palace is of ...

— Ranching, Sport and Travel • Thomas Carson

... ruined heaps of stone, open upon shores every whit as solitary as themselves, and that the wide untrodden sea stretches drearily around. We spent a long summer's day amidst its desert recesses, and saw the sun set behind its wilderness of pyramidal hills. The evening was calm and clear; the armies of the insect world were sporting by millions in the light; a brown stream that ran through the valley at our feet yielded an incessant poppling sound from the myriads of fish that were incessantly leaping in the pools, beguiled ...

— Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller

... basket used in religious ceremonies and dances; shown in fig. 703. Although differing materially from the Zuni sacred meal baskets, yet, as is shown in the figure, the pyramidal elevations on ...

— Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880 • James Stevenson

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