Pyramid (disambiguation)
A pyramid is a structure with triangular lateral surfaces converging to an apex.
 |
Look up pyramid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Pyramid may also refer to:
Anatomy and medicine
- Petrous part of the temporal bone, the pyramid
- Pyramid (brainstem), the anterior part of medulla oblongata
Games and sport
- Pyramid (solitaire), a card game
- Pyramid (drinking game), a card game that is most commonly used as a drinking game
- Pyramid (video game), a 1990s Nintendo game by American Video Entertainment
- Pyramid 2000, a 1980s TRS-80 Color Computer interactive fiction text game based on the Colossal Cave Adventure
- Human pyramid, a vertically oriented, triangular or pyramid-shaped formation of people
- Russian pyramid, known as "pyramid", a pool/snooker type game
- League system, a hierarchy of leagues in a given sport
- Pyramid, a three-dimensional chess 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:
- 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, 2011 crime film
- The Pyramid (film), 2014 horror film
- The Pyramid (Croatian TV series), a weekly talk and debate competition television show begun in 2004
- "The Pyramid", a 1978 episode of The Bionic Woman
- Pyramid Films, now Pyramid Media, an educational film distributor
Publications and publishing
- Pyramid (magazine), a gaming magazine
- Pyramids (novel), a 1989 Terry Pratchett book of the Discworld series
- The Pyramid (Golding), a 1967 novel about growing up in the 1920s in England
- The Pyramid (Kadare), a 1995 novel in Albanian
- The Pyramid (short stories), by Henning Mankell, published first as Pyramiden in Swedish in 1999 and afterwards in English in 2008
- Pyramid Books, a publishing company
Music
- Pyramid (band), 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), 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
- Symarip, a British reggae group also known as The Pyramids, active from the 1960s to the 1970s
- Starfucker, 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, in Victoria, Australia
- Songs
- "Pyramid" (song), by Charice
- "Pyramids" (song), by Frank Ocean
- "Pyramid", a song by Wolfmother on the album Wolfmother
- "Pyramid", a song by Two Door Cinema Club
Places
Canada
- The Pyramid (volcano), a lava dome in British Columbia
- Pyramid Mountain (volcano), a subglacial mound in British Columbia
- Pyramid Lake (Alberta)
United States
- Pyramid, Illinois, an unincorporated community
- Pyramid, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
- Pyramid, Nevada, an unincorporated community
- Pyramid Lake (El Dorado County, California)
- Pyramid Lake (Los Angeles County, California)
- Pyramid Lake (Nevada)
- Pyramid Peak (disambiguation)
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, New Zealand
- The Pyramid, a small island in the Chatham Islands, New Zealand
- The Pyramid (Antarctica), a distinctive peak in Victoria Land, Antarctica
- Pyramid, Maribor, a low hill in the city of Maribor, Slovenia
- Great Pyramid of Cholula, Mexico
Buildings
- Louvre Pyramid (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, a leisure complex in the UK
- Memphis Pyramid, in Memphis, Tennessee
- The Pyramids (Indianapolis), an office development in Indiana
- Walter Pyramid (formerly Long Beach Pyramid), a stadium in California
In business
- Pyramid scheme, a non-sustainable business model
- Pyramid Breweries, a brewing company headquartered in Seattle, Washington
- Pyramid Building Society, an Australian company which collapsed in 1990
- Pyramid Technology, a defunct computer company based in California from 1981 to 1995
- The Pyramid Companies, an American shopping mall developer founded in 1970
- Pyramid (cigarette), a cigarette brand manufactured by Liggett Group, Inc.
Science and technology
- Pyramid (geometry), a polyhedron formed by connecting a polygonal base and a point, called the apex
- Pyramid (image processing), a type of multi-scale signal representation
- Pyramid (web framework), an open source web application framework written in Python
- The codename of a project aiming to rewrite Microsoft Word from scratch
- Ecological pyramid
Other uses
- A type of organizational structure
- Hierarchy
See also
- Piramida (disambiguation)
- Pyramide (disambiguation)
- Pyramiden, a mining settlement in Svalbard, Norway
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.