TRIPOD
\tɹˈa͡ɪpɒd], \tɹˈaɪpɒd], \t_ɹ_ˈaɪ_p_ɒ_d]\
Definitions of TRIPOD
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.
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A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at top, for supporting a theodolite, compass, telescope, camera, or other instrument.
By Oddity Software
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Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.
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A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at top, for supporting a theodolite, compass, telescope, camera, or other instrument.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Anything, as a caldron or altar, supported by three legs; specially, the seat over the altar on which the priestess of Apollo and the sibyls in ancient times were placed, to render oracles.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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n. [Latin, Greek] A seat or stool supported by three feet on which the priestess of Apollo sat when delivering the oracles; –a bowl or cup supported on a three-legged pedestal, in which the wine and water were mixed at the banquets of the ancients; –any utensil or vessel supported on three feet; –a three-legged frame or stand for supporting a theodolite, compass, or the like.
