ziggurat

Noun

Meaning

A temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories

Any building with similar style or shape.
He works in an old ziggurat of an office building.

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Only in 3% of the cases, where the combination of those two falls outside the "core of the ziggurat" (a kind of rejection sampling using logarithms), do exponentials and more uniform random numbers have to be employed. Source: Internet

It’s a squat earthen ziggurat pierced like a pincushion by wooden spars that serve as scaffolding for its annual replastering. Source: Internet

Ur's palaces and temples lie in ruins, but its hulking Ziggurat still dominates the desert flatlands of what is now southern Iraq. Source: Internet

Sun-baked bricks made up the core of the ziggurat with facings of fired bricks on the outside. Source: Internet

Crawford, page 85 Access to the shrine would have been by a series of ramps on one side of the ziggurat or by a spiral ramp from base to summit. Source: Internet

The last Babylonian king, Nabonidus (who was Assyrian born, and not a Chaldean), improved the ziggurat. Source: Internet

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