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pyramid 1 : a group of holding companies superimposed on one another to give those in control of the top holding company control over all of the companies with a small investment 2 : the series of operations involved in pyramiding on an exchange 3 : a pyramid scheme vi : to speculate (as on a security or commodity exchange) by using paper profits as a margin for additional transactions vt 1 : to use (as profits) in speculative pyramiding 2 : to increase the impact of (as a tax assessed at the production level) on the ultimate consumer by treating as a cost subject to markup adj : of, relating to, or being an illegal scheme in which participants give money or other valuables in exchange for the opportunity to receive payment for recruiting others to participate in the scheme ...
Pyramidic
Of or pertaining to a pyramid having the form of a pyramid pyramidal...
Pyramid
To enlarge ones holding or interest in a series of operations on a continued rise or decline by using the profits to buy or sell additional amounts on a margin as where one buys on a 10 margin 100 shares of stock quoted at 100 holds it till it rises to 105 and then uses the paper profit to buy 50 shares more etc The series of operations constitutes a pyramid A similar process of reinvesting gains or winnings as of a gamble but not involving operation on margin is called a parlay...
Pyramidally
Like a pyramid...
Bipyramidal
Consisting of two pyramids placed base to base having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism as in quartz crystals...
Dihexagonal
Consisting of two hexagonal parts united thus a dihexagonal pyramid is composed of two hexagonal pyramids placed base to base...
Berylloid
A solid consisting of a double twelve sided pyramid so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl...
Bushhammer
A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars with pyramidal points arranged in rows or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points used for dressing stone...
Homopolic
In promorphology pertaining to or exhibiting that kind of organic form in which the stereometric ground form is a pyramid with similar poles See Promorphology...
Liroconite
A hydrated arseniate of copper occurring in obtuse pyramidal crystals of a sky blue or verdigris green color...
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