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.
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