tripod

[ trahy-pod ]

/ ˈtraɪ pɒd /

a stool, table, pedestal, etc., with three legs.

a three-legged stand or support, as for a camera or telescope.

the oracular seat of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi.

Origin of tripod

1595–1605; < Latin tripod- (stem of tripūs) < Greek tripod- (stem of trípous) orig., three-footed. See tri-, -pod

He took his camera bag, but we thought walking with a tripod would not be a good idea, so we left it in the car.

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West said he saw a massage table and video camera in the studio, attached to a tripod.

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And he brought a digital camera and a tripod to document his endeavors.

D.C.'s New Beefcake |Maureen O'Connor |October 14, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
The "tripod of life" a French physiologist called these three organs.

The Professor at the Breakfast Table |Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

I leant up as one of a tripod of three of us, my face towards the burning city.

Bullets & Billets |Bruce Bairnsfather
At the left of the tripod is an abbreviation for year 3; at the right is a monogram.

Archology and the Bible |George A. Barton
The apparatus is then placed on the tripod over the alcohol lamp.

The Book of Cheese |Charles Thom and Walter Warner Fisk
In use the reservoir is generally mounted on a tripod stand.

The Elements of Bacteriological Technique |John William Henry Eyre

tripod

/ (ˈtraɪpɒd) /

an adjustable and usually collapsible three-legged stand to which a camera, etc, can be attached to hold it steady

a stand or table having three legs

tripodal (ˈtrɪpədəl), adjective

C17: via Latin from Greek tripod-, tripous three-footed, from tri- + pous foot