tripod

[tri·pod]

A tripod is a three legged support for a camera. Once you try using a tripod for taking photographs, your sharp, beautiful pictures might make it hard to do without it.

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Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.

Noun
a three-legged rack used for support

n.
Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.

n.
A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at top, for supporting a theodolite, compass, telescope, camera, or other instrument.

Tripod

Tri"pod , n. [L. tripus, -odis, Gr. ; (see Tri-) + , , foot. See Foot, and cf. Tripos, Trivet.] 1. Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet. &hand; On such, a stool, in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, the Pythian priestess sat while giving responses to those consulting the Delphic oracle. 2. A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at top, for supporting a theodolite, compass, telescope, camera, or other instrument. Tripod of life, ∨ Vital tripod (Physiol.), the three organs, the heart, lungs, and brain; -- so called because their united action is necessary to the maintenance of life.

Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.

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