pyramidal

pyramidal

English

Etymology

From medieval Latin pyramidalis.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pĭ-rămʹĭ-dəl IPA^(key): /pɪˈɹæm.ɪ.dl̩/

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Adjective

pyramidal (not comparable)

1. (geometry) Pyramid-shaped.
   • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎:

     At one point was an isolated pyramidal rock, crowned by a great tree, which appeared to be separated by a cleft from the main crag.

   • 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 752:

     Below is the deep abyss of the Lauterbrunnen valley, and at its head a stately semi-circle of mountains, with the pyramidal Lauterbrunnen Breithorn as the centre-piece.

   1. (crystallography) Tetragonal.

Derived terms

• pyramidally
• pyramidal cell
• subpyramidal

Translations

pyramid-shaped

Catalan: piramidal Czech: pyramidový Dutch: piramidaal Greek: πυραμιδικός (el) m (pyramidikós) Hungarian: piramidális Italian: piramidale (it) Polish: piramidalny (pl) Portuguese: piramidal (pt) Russian: пирамида́льный (ru) (piramidálʹnyj) Serbo-Croatian: pȉramidālan (sh) Spanish: piramidal Swedish: pyramidal (sv), pyramidformad Tagalog: tagiluin, gunong Volapük: piramidik (vo)

Noun

pyramidal (plural pyramidals)

1. (anatomy) One of the carpal bones.

Derived terms

• peripyramidal

Related terms

• cuneiform

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French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

pyramidal (feminine pyramidale, masculine plural pyramidaux, feminine plural pyramidales)

1. pyramidal

Derived terms

• vente pyramidale

Further reading

• “pyramidal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.