tripod
A three-legged stand or mount.
Example
“Cameras often have tripod attachments, which help when taking steady photographs.”
Other meanings
An organism with three limbs.
A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).
A kind of
- rack
Kinds of tripod
- camera tripod
Related words
- tripodic
- tripod grasp
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “tripod” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.