Based on Dravidian architecture, it was designed as a pyramid representing the structure of the universe: the highest level at the center of the temple represented Mount Meru, the home of the Hindu gods, with the five towers on the highest level representing the five peaks of the mountain.

The original entrance to the Great Pyramid is vertically above ground level and east of the center line of the pyramid.

A hierarchy is typically visualized as a pyramid, where the height of the ranking or person depicts their power status and the width of that level represents how many people or business divisions are at that level relative to the whole — the highest-ranking people are at the apex, and there are very few of them ; the base may include thousands of people who have no subordinates ).

In many organizations, the number of managers in every level resembles a pyramid.

* A biomass pyramid shows the amount of biomass at each trophic level.

* A productivity pyramid shows the production or turn-over in biomass at each trophic level.

The biomass pyramid is not inverted, but decreases markedly at each higher level.

The trophic pyramid roughly represents the biomass ( usually measured as total dry-weight ) at each level.

< div style =" border: none ; width: 350px ;">< div class =" thumbcaption "> Top Left: A four level trophic pyramid sitting on a layer of soil and its community of decomposers.

In a pyramid of numbers, the number of consumers at each level decreases significantly, so that a single top consumer, ( e. g., a polar bear or a human ), will be supported by a much larger number of separate producers.

The size of each level in the pyramid generally represents biomass, which can be measured as the dry weight of an organism.

Women's volleyball club VBC Zandhoven plays at the highest level of the Belgian league pyramid.

The women's A squad of volleyball club Gea Happel Amigos Zoersel plays at the highest level of the Belgian league pyramid.

The distinctive pyramid pinnacle is at above sea level.

The second level is set inside a pyramid in Egypt.

In sports using a league system ( also known as a pyramid structure ), a division consists a group of teams who play a sport at a similar competitive level.

The social classes in the Viceroyalty of Peru: Pink and fuchsia colors represented the lowest demographic class-the slaves were at the lowest level, above which were poor Spaniards, native people, mestizos, free dark-skinned people and the castas ; yellow color were the middle social class-traders, noble natives, corregidors ; and green color of the pyramid was the upper class-the oidors and Tribunal del Consulado's traders.

However as Rhyl's application to join the league was late, they were placed in the second level of the pyramid system.

In 1992, they reluctantly decided to join the League of Wales but, because their application was received too late, they were placed instead in the Cymru Alliance, the second level of the pyramid system.

* biomass pyramid-also called a ecological pyramid, it is a graph that illustrates the productivity in a trophic level

Refusing to take up their place in the geographically spread Welsh Alliance, they chose to field one team in 1998-99, in the middle ( First ) division of the Wrexham Area League ( level 4 in the pyramid ), the place previously filled by their reserve side.

Thus Mold Alexandra were back where they believed they should have been twelve months earlier, rebuilding at level 3 in the pyramid.

The club re-formed shortly afterwards and entered the English league pyramid system at a much lower level.

Since 1914, the competition has been open to all U. S. Soccer affiliated clubs, and currently pits teams from all five levels of the American soccer pyramid against each other each year, similarly to England's FA Cup.

is one of Wales ' older football clubs, and has an illustrious history of competition in European football, the English pyramid system and now the Welsh Premiership.

However, after a brief transitional season in red on returning to the Welsh pyramid, they adopted their yellow change kit ( deemed lucky for the success it brought in Welsh Cup competition ) as the club's home strip.

The competition is considered as the second level in the pyramid of North American Women's hockey, below the Canadian Women's Hockey League ( CWHL ) and the Western Women's Hockey League ( WWHL ).

This competition is considered as the second level in the pyramid of Canadian Women's hockey, below the Canadian Women's Hockey League ( CWHL ) and the Western Women's Hockey League ( WWHL ).

The competition is run in a pyramid format, with the FA Women's Premier League National Division at the top, and the Northern and Southern divisions running on an equal basis underneath the National Division.

Honours usually considered to contribute to a treble are the top-tier domestic league competition, domestic cup competitions and continental tournaments ; although this depends to some extent on the structure of the football pyramid in a country.

** A pyramid scheme typically collapses much faster because it requires exponential increases in participants to sustain it.

The isolated figure of Hamlet reclines in the dark foreground, while behind a Scrim ( material ) | gauze the rest of the court are absorbed in a bright, unified golden pyramid emanating from Claudius.

Some team members stay at the pyramid while Jackson, O ' Neil, and others go out and discover a mining village inhabited by humans who, when they see Jackson's medallion, assume them to be gods sent by Ra.

A chain letter may qualify as a fraudulent activity, as in the case of a pyramid scheme which asks recipients to funnel money up the chain while requesting the letter be distributed to multiple new recipients.

Two overt examples of pyramid schemes are a Chain Letter and a Ponzi Scheme, while a stock market bubble, particularly fueled by lines of credit ( margin accounts ) is a more subtle example.

" and the fact while some people call MLMs in general " pyramid selling " others use the term to denote an illegal pyramid scheme masquerading as an MLM.

The three-dimensional version is called Pascal's pyramid or Pascal's tetrahedron, while the general versions are called Pascal's simplices.

The building's exterior is dominated by heavy flying buttresses which allowed the architects to increase the window size significantly, while the west end is dominated by two contrasting spires – a 105-metre ( 349 ft ) plain pyramid dating from the 1140s and a 113-metre ( 377 ft ) early 16th century Flamboyant spire on top of an older tower.

The major difference is that in mastaba construction they laid horizontal courses, but for the pyramid layers, they built in accretion layers that leaned inwards, while using blocks that were both bigger and higher quality.

While accepting that under Glass-Steagall financial firms could still have “ made, sold, and securitized risky mortgages, all the while fueling a massive housing bubble and building a highly leveraged, Ponzi-like pyramid of derivatives on top ,” the New Rules Project concludes that commentators who deny the GLBA played a role in the financial crisis “ fail to recognize the significance of 1999 as the pivotal policy-making moment leading up to the crash .” The Project argues 1999 was Congress ’ s opportunity to reject 25 years of “ deregulation ” and “ confront the changing financial system by reaffirming the importance of effective structural safeguards, such as the Glass-Steagall Act's firewall and market share caps to limit the size of banks ; bringing shadow banks into the regulatory framework ; and developing new rules to control the dangers inherent in derivatives and other engineered financial products .”

Some food substances are singled out due to the impact on the target issues the " pyramid " is meant to address, while in a later revision, some recommendations are omitted since they follow automatically from other recommendations while other sub-categories are added.

Yet another states that an image of this Virgin appeared on the sleeve of Franciscan monk Martín de Valencia, while praying on the pyramid mound of Cholula.

Of this oppression there passed ten years while the causeway was made by which they drew the stones, which causeway they built, and it is a work not much less, as it appears to me, than the pyramid.

On the pyramid it is declared in Egyptian writing how much was spent on radishes and onions and leeks for the workmen, and if I remember correctly what the interpreter said while reading this inscription for me, a sum of 1600 silver talents was spent.

Containing the advantages of both technologies, the frequency range can be maximized while the pyramid remains small ( 10 cm ).

In 2006-2007 season the average salary of a player in the Championship ( the second tier of the English football pyramid ) made £ 195, 750 while the average salary for League One ( tier 3 ) was £ 67, 850 and League Two ( tier 4 ) was £ 49, 600.

The object is to change the color of every cube in a pyramid by making the on-screen character jump on top of the cube while avoiding obstacles and enemies.

Colored balls occasionally appear at the top of the pyramid and bounce downward ; contact with a red ball is lethal to Q * bert, while contact with a green one will immobilize the on-screen enemies.

In any case, while the overall shape of the planet is a conical stepped pyramid, it is clearly much broader ( several thousand kilometers ) than it is tall ( around 100 km ).

Supporters of MLM contend this is a fair compensation system, while critics contend that it is similar to a pyramid scheme.

The centre one has five spaces for sweetmeat pyramid dishes while the two side leaves of the screen have three spaces for fruit trays.

Once the pyramid is obtained the player must backtrack to their starting point, and exit the level ( the exit is surrounded with neurons, one must determine the pattern of the electrical pulses and cross while they are inactive ).

The second originated from the curiosity and valor of the cleric González, chaplain of the group, who having landed with the soldiers, undertook to explore — and plunder — a pyramid and some adoratorios while his companions were trying to save their lives.

Holmes and Watson locate Mr. Cragwitch who explains that in his youth, he and the other men discovered an underground pyramid of Rame Tep while planning to build a hotel in Egypt.