pyramid A pyramid (from el, πυραμίς ') is a structure whose outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single step at the top, making the shape roughly a pyramid in the geometric sense. The base of a pyramid can be trilateral, quadrilat ...

is a structure with triangular lateral surfaces converging to an apex. Pyramid may also refer to:

Anatomy and medicine

Petrous part of the temporal bone The petrous part of the temporal bone is pyramid-shaped and is wedged in at the base of the skull between the sphenoid and occipital bones. Directed medially, forward, and a little upward, it presents a base, an apex, three surfaces, and three an ...

, the pyramid *

Pyramid (brainstem) In neuroanatomy, the medullary pyramids are paired white matter structures of the brainstem's medulla oblongata that contain motor fibers of the corticospinal and corticobulbar tracts – known together as the pyramidal tracts. The lower limit ...

, the anterior part of medulla oblongata

Games and sport

Pyramid (solitaire) Pyramid is a patience or solitaire game of the Simple Addition family, where the object is to get all the cards from the pyramid to the foundation. The object of the game is to remove pairs of cards that add up to a total of 13, the equivalent ...

, a card game *

Pyramid (drinking game) Pyramid or beeramid is a card game that is most commonly used as a drinking game requiring 1 standard deck of playing cards. This game is also referred to as Bullshit Pyramid. Set up One begins by creating a pyramid of cards by placing them fa ...

, a card game that is most commonly used as a drinking game * '' Puzzling Pyramid'', magnetic puzzle game released in 1960. * ''Pyramid'' (video game), a 1990s Nintendo game by American Video Entertainment * ''

Pyramid 2000 ''Pyramid 2000'' is an interactive fiction game. The game is an altered version of '' Colossal Cave'' that takes advantage of an Egyptian setting, re-theming some of the locations, objects, and puzzles. For instance, the "little bird" from Adventu ...

'', a 1980s TRS-80 Color Computer interactive fiction text game based on the Colossal Cave Adventure *

Human pyramid A human pyramid is an acrobatic formation of three or more people in which two or more people support a tier of higher people, who in turn may support other, higher tiers of people. People above the bottom tier may kneel or stand on the shoulders ...

, a vertically oriented, triangular or pyramid-shaped formation of people *

Pyramid pool Pyramid pool, or simply pyramids, is a form of pool that was played mainly in the 19th century. It was one of several pool games that were popular at this time, and was forerunner to modern games such as eight-ball, blackball, straight pool, an ...

, or pyramids, a cue sport played mainly in the 19th century *

Russian pyramid Russian pyramid, also known as Russian billiards (russian: ру́сский билья́рд, ), is a form of billiards played on a large billiard table with narrow pockets. It is popular across Eastern Europe as well as countries of the former ...

, known as "pyramid", a pool/snooker type game *

League system A league system is a hierarchy of leagues in a sport. They are often called pyramids, due to their tendency to split into an increasing number of regional divisions further down the system. League systems of some sort are used in many sports in ...

, a hierarchy of leagues in a given sport * Pyramid, a

three-dimensional chess Three-dimensional chess (or 3‑D chess) is any chess variant that replaces the two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells between which the pieces can move. In practical play, this is usually achieved by boards representing d ...

variant * Pyramid, a fictional sport in the science-fiction TV show '' Battlestar Galactica''

Television and film

* Several television game shows with the same format, created by Bob Stewart and now controlled by

Sony Pictures Television Sony Pictures Television Inc. (abbreviated as SPT) is an American television production and distribution studio. Based at the Sony Pictures Studios complex in Culver City, it is a division of Sony Entertainment's unit Sony Pictures Entertainm ...

: ** ''Pyramid'' (game show), the United States versions since 1973, including ''The $25,000 Pyramid'' and ''Junior Pyramid'' ** ''Pyramid'' (Australian game show), a children's quiz show in Australia since 2009, based on the U.S. ''Junior Partner Pyramid'' * ''

The PyraMMMid ''The PyraMMMid'' (russian: ПираМММида, PiraMMMida) is a 2011 Russian crime drama directed by Eldar Salavatov. The plot is based on the partially biographical story "Pyramid" by Sergei Mavrodi. Plot Russia, early 1990s. Sergei Mamontov ...

'', 2011 crime film * ''The Pyramid'' (film), 2014 horror film * ''The Pyramid'' (TV series), a Croatian weekly talk and debate competition television show begun in 2004 * "The Pyramid", a 1978 episode of ''The Bionic Woman''

Publications and publishing

* ''Pyramid'' (magazine), a gaming magazine * ''Pyramids'' (novel), a 1989 Terry Pratchett book of the Discworld series * ''The Pyramid'' (Golding novel), a 1967 novel by William Golding * ''The Pyramid'' (Kadare novel), a 1995 Albanian novel by Ismail Kadare * ''The Pyramid'' (short stories), by Henning Mankell, published first as ''Pyramiden'' in Swedish in 1999 and afterwards in English in 2008 *

Pyramid Books Jove Books, formerly known as Pyramid Books, is an American paperback and eBook publishing imprint, founded as an independent paperback house in 1949 by Almat Magazine Publishers (Alfred R. Plaine and Matthew Huttner). The company was sold to ...

, a publishing company

Music

Pyramid (band) Pyramid is an American experimental, indie-rock band from North Carolina. Their first album ''The First American'' was released in 2005. Music from the album was used in two David Gordon Green films, ''All the Real Girls'' and '' Undertow''. Pyra ...

, an American experimental, indie-rock band from North Carolina and active since the early 2000s * Pyramids, an American experimental group on Hydra Head Records in the 2000s, from Texas ** ''Pyramids'' (album), their 2008 debut studio album *

The Pyramids (band) The Pyramids were a surf group from Long Beach, California, United States, who formed in 1961. In early 1964, they made the Top 20 of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 with their instrumental " Penetration". It proved to be the final major instrumental ...

, an American surf rock group in the 1960s, from California * The Pyramids, a jazz and world music group formed in the 1970s and led by

Idris Ackamoor Idris Ackamoor (born Bruce Baker, January 9, 1951) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, actor, tap dancer, producer, administrator, and director. He is also artistic director of the jazz ensemble The Pyramids. The Pyramids He founded th ...

Symarip Symarip (also known at various stages of their career as The Bees, The Pyramids, Seven Letters and Zubaba) were a British ska and reggae band, originating in the late 1960s, when Frank Pitter and Michael Thomas founded the band as The Bees. The b ...

, a British reggae group also known as The Pyramids, active from the 1960s to the 1970s *

Starfucker Strfkr (a disemvowelment of "Starfucker"), stylized in all caps, is an indie rock band from Portland, Oregon. It began in 2007 as a solo project of Joshua Hodges. History Members include Joshua Hodges of Sexton Blake (vocals, keyboards, guita ...

, an indie-electronica band from Oregon, started in 2007 as Pyramid or Pyramiddd * ''Pyramid'' (The Alan Parsons Project album), 1978 * ''Pyramid'' (Modern Jazz Quartet album), 1960 * ''Pyramid'' (Cannonball Adderley album), 1974 * ''Pyramid'' (Lee Konitz album) *

Pyramid Rock Festival The Pyramid Rock Festival was an Australian New Year's Eve camp-out rock music festival at Ventnor on Phillip Island. The original festival in 2004 was organised by local resident, Angus Cameron, and his two cousins. History Beginning as a sing ...

, in Victoria, Australia ; Songs * "Pyramid" (song), by Charice * "Pyramids" (song), by Frank Ocean * "Pyramid", a song by Wolfmother on the album ''

Wolfmother Wolfmother is an Australian hard rock band from Sydney. Formed in 2004, the group is centred around vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, who is the only constant member of the line-up. The band has been through many personnel changes since ...

'' * "Pyramid", a song by

Two Door Cinema Club Two Door Cinema Club are a band from Bangor, County Down, Bangor, Northern Ireland. The band formed in 2007 and is composed of three members: Alex Trimble (vocals, rhythm guitar, beats, synths), Sam Halliday (lead guitar, backing vocals), and Ke ...

* "Pyramid", an instrumental song by

Incognito (band) Incognito is a British acid jazz band. Their debut album, ''Jazz Funk'', was released in 1981. Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick is the band's leader, singer, guitarist, composer, and record producer. The band has included Linda Muriel, Jocelyn Brow ...

Places

Canada

The Pyramid (British Columbia) The Pyramid, also called Pyramid Dome, is a young lava dome on the northeast flank of Mount Edziza in British Columbia, Canada. It represents several different styles of volcanic activity of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex, part of the North ...

, a lava dome in British Columbia *

Pyramid Mountain (Wells Gray-Clearwater) Pyramid Mountain is a subglacial mound located on the Murtle Plateau in Wells Gray Provincial Park, east-central British Columbia, Canada. Formation Pyramid Mountain erupted about 12,000 years ago. It was once mistaken for a cinder cone and is n ...

, a subglacial mound in British Columbia *

Pyramid Lake (Alberta) Pyramid Lake is a kidney-shaped lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. It lies at the foot of Pyramid Mountain, a natural landmark that overlooks the town of Jasper. It has a total area of and discharges in Athabasca River through the lo ...

United States

* Pyramid, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Pyramid, Kentucky, an unincorporated community *

Pyramid, Nevada Pyramid is an unincorporated community in Washoe County, Nevada, United States. At one time, it was a station on the Fernley and Lassen Railway located between Bristol and Big Canyon. There was a post office at this location from March 1904 unt ...

, an unincorporated community *

Pyramid Lake (El Dorado County, California) Pyramid Lake is a lake in the backcountry of the Desolation Wilderness in the Sierra Nevada of El Dorado County, California. See also *List of lakes in California There are more than 3,000 named lakes, reservoirs, and dry lakes in the U.S. s ...

Pyramid Lake (Los Angeles County, California) Pyramid Lake is a reservoir formed by Pyramid Dam on Piru Creek in the eastern San Emigdio Mountains, near Castaic, Southern California. It is a part of the West Branch California Aqueduct, which is a part of the California State Water Project ...

Pyramid Lake (Nevada) Pyramid Lake is the geographic sink of the basin of the Truckee River, northeast of Reno, Nevada, United States. Pyramid Lake is the biggest remnant of ancient Lake Lahontan, the colossal inland sea that once covered most of Nevada. It is app ...

Pyramid Peak (disambiguation) Pyramid Peak may refer to several places: United States *Pyramid Peak (Alaska) *Pyramid Peak (California) (3,043 m) *Pyramid Peak (Fresno County, California) (3,895 m) *Pyramid Peak (Inyo County, California) (2,044 m) *Pyramid Peak (Colorado) (4, ...

Elsewhere

* The Egyptian Pyramids, especially the Pyramids at Giza * Pyramids (Bathgate), a land sculpture in West Lothian, Scotland * The Pyramids, a rock formation at

Victory Beach Victory Beach is located on the Pacific Ocean coast of the Otago Peninsula, in the South Island of New Zealand, by road from Dunedin city centre and from the nearby town of Portobello. The longest beach on the peninsula, Victory Beach is located ...

, New Zealand *

The Pyramid (Chatham Islands) The Pyramid ( Moriori: ''Tcharako;'' ; officially The Pyramid (Tarakoikoia))Government of New Zealand, Dept. of Conservation (1999) Chatham IslandsConservation Management Strategy map 6. Retrieved 13 July 2012. is a small island south of Pitt ...

, a small island in the Chatham Islands, New Zealand *

The Pyramid (Antarctica) The Pyramid () is a small but distinctive peak of Omak just south of Pyramid Trough, at the west side of the Koettlitz Glacier. The descriptive name appears to have been first used by the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910–1913. A number of ...

, a distinctive peak in Victoria Land, Antarctica *

Pyramid, Maribor The Pyramid ( sl, Piramida) is a low hill (elevation 386 m) in the city of Maribor, Slovenia. It is a popular excursion spot, affording a good view of the city. An ascent takes 15 to 30 minutes. History Until 1784, the hill was the site of Upper M ...

, a low hill in the city of Maribor, Slovenia *

Great Pyramid of Cholula The Great Pyramid of Cholula, also known as (Nahuatl for "made-by-hand mountain"), is a complex located in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. It is the largest archaeological site of a pyramid (temple) in the New World, as well as the largest pyramid by ...

, Mexico *

Pyramiden Pyramiden (; rus, Пирами́да, r=Piramída, p=pʲɪrɐˈmʲidə; literally 'The Pyramid') is an abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard which has become a tourist destination. Founded by Sweden in ...

, an abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard

Buildings

Louvre Pyramid The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre) is a large glass and metal structure designed by the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei. The pyramid is in the main courtyard ( Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace in Paris, surrounded by three smalle ...

(Pyramide du Louvre), one large and three smaller glass and metal pyramids in the main courtyard of the Louvre Palace in Paris, France *

Portsmouth Pyramids Centre The Portsmouth Pyramids Centre (also known as the Pyramids) is an indoor leisure complex in Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. It has a live arena, leisure gym and function rooms. The function room, located next door to the indoor leisur ...

, a leisure complex in the UK *

Memphis Pyramid The Memphis Pyramid, formerly known as the Great American Pyramid and the Pyramid Arena, is a building located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, United States, at the banks of the Mississippi River. Built in 1991 as a 20,142-seat arena, the facili ...

, in Memphis, Tennessee * The Pyramids (Indianapolis), an office development in Indiana *

Walter Pyramid The Walter Pyramid, formerly known as The Long Beach Pyramid, is a 4,000-seat, indoor multi-purpose arena on the campus of Long Beach State University in Long Beach, California. History The Walter Pyramid was officially opened on November 30, 19 ...

(formerly Long Beach Pyramid), a stadium in California

In business

Pyramid scheme A pyramid scheme is a business model that recruits members via a promise of payments or services for enrolling others into the scheme, rather than supplying investments or sale of products. As recruiting multiplies, recruiting becomes quickly im ...

, a non-sustainable business model *

Pyramid Breweries Pyramid Breweries, Inc., is a brewing company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It produces beer under the Pyramid brand at two breweries and several brewpubs in Washington, Oregon, and California. It was founded in 1984 as Hart Brewing, and ...

, a brewing company headquartered in Seattle, Washington *

Pyramid Building Society The Pyramid Building Society, the Geelong Building Society and the Countrywide Building Society together made up the Farrow Group of building societies, based in Geelong, Australia. The group collapsed in 1990 with debts in excess of $2 bi ...

, an Australian company which collapsed in 1990 *

Pyramid Technology Pyramid Technology Corporation was a computer company that produced a number of RISC-based minicomputers at the upper end of the performance range. It was based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California They also became the second company to s ...

, a defunct computer company based in California from 1981 to 1995 *

The Pyramid Companies Pyramid Management Group (also known as The Pyramid Companies) is a development firm formed in 1968 in Upstate New York, by Robert J. Congel. It is the largest privately held shopping mall development firm in the Northeastern United States, with ...

, an American shopping mall developer founded in 1970

Science and technology

Pyramid (geometry) In geometry, a pyramid () is a polyhedron formed by connecting a polygonal base and a point, called the apex. Each base edge and apex form a triangle, called a ''lateral face''. It is a conic solid with polygonal base. A pyramid with an base ...

, a polyhedron formed by connecting a polygonal base and a point, called the apex *

Pyramid (image processing) Pyramid, or pyramid representation, is a type of multi-scale signal representation developed by the computer vision, image processing and signal processing communities, in which a signal or an image is subject to repeated smoothing and subsampl ...

, a type of multi-scale signal representation *

Pyramid (web framework) Pylons Project is an open-source organization that develops a set of web application technologies written in Python. Initially the project was a single web framework called Pylons, but after the merger with the repoze.bfg framework under the new n ...

, an open source web application framework written in Python * The codename of a project aiming to rewrite

Microsoft Word Microsoft Word is a word processing software developed by Microsoft. It was first released on October 25, 1983, under the name ''Multi-Tool Word'' for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms includin ...

from scratch *

Ecological pyramid An ecological pyramid (also trophic pyramid, Eltonian pyramid, energy pyramid, or sometimes food pyramid) is a graphical representation designed to show the Biomass (ecology), biomass or Primary production, bioproductivity at each trophic level ...

Other uses

* A type of

organizational structure An organizational structure defines how activities such as task allocation, coordination, and supervision are directed toward the achievement of organizational aims. Organizational structure affects organizational action and provides the foundat ...

Hierarchy A hierarchy (from Greek: , from , 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another. Hierarchy is an important ...