pyramid
Definitions
General English
General Science
- noun a solid of which each side is a triangle, with either a square or triangular base
Commerce
- noun a hierarchical staff structure in an organisation, with few employees at the top and many more at the bottom
Human Resources
- noun a shape like a triangle with a wide bottom rising to a point at the top
Medical
- noun a cone-shaped part of the body, especially a cone-shaped projection on the surface of the medulla oblongata or in the medulla of the kidney.
Origin & History of “pyramid”
Egypt seems a likely ultimate
source for
pyramid, but its earliest known
ancestor is Greek
puramís,
which passed into
English via Latin
pyramis.
Pediment ‘triangular gable’ (17
th c.) probably originated as a garbling of
pyramid, later influenced by
ped-, the
stem of Latin
pēs ‘foot’.
