Tripod

Tripod can refer to:

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• Any three-legged structure:
• For a seat or table with three legs, see Furniture.
• For a device used to position, support, and stabilize:
• a camera, see Tripod (photography);
• a telescope (or binoculars), see Telescope,
• a machine gun, see machine gun
• a theodolite
• a leveling instrument
• a pile driving rig.
• In the context of boiling water or cooking in a cauldron over an open fire, it is also called trivet and is
• a stand for holding the cauldron;
• an assembly combining both cauldron and stand in one piece.
• For an ancient Greek altar of this design, also used as a seat from which to deliver the oracles of the god, see sacrificial tripod.
• For an ancient Chinese ding.
• For the weapon platform used in the H.G. Wells novel and subsequent remakes, see Tripod (The War of the Worlds).
• For the alien-built walking machines in the John Christopher science-fiction novels, see The Tripods.
• In the context of walking behaviour in insects: a gait pattern where three legs (the front and hind leg on one side, the middle leg on the other side) touch the ground at any point in time.
• Tripod was a graphical user-interface design system which was the fore-runner of Visual Basic.
• Tripod.com is a free webhosting service currently run by Lycos.
• Tripod is the name of an Australian satire and parody musical act.