1
: a three-legged stand (as for a camera)
2
: a stool, table, or altar with three legs
3
: a vessel (such as a cauldron) resting on three legs
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On stage, the group follows Snook around, sometimes with set cameras on tripods, other times with full-body steady cams, and even sometimes with an iPhone.
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2025
However, additional accessories such as tripods, monopods, selfie sticks and cameras with a lens longer than 6 inches are prohibited.
—Caché McClay, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
The simplest of them, are little more than a machine gun on a tripod with a video camera and a servo motor.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
And if that means Fielder has to replace the actress playing Sully’s companion with a robot, dismiss the crew from the set, and masturbate in front of cameras placed on tripods, then those are reasonable sacrifices to be made for science and art.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 5 May 2025
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Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2025
However, additional accessories such as tripods, monopods, selfie sticks and cameras with a lens longer than 6 inches are prohibited.
—Caché McClay, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
The simplest of them, are little more than a machine gun on a tripod with a video camera and a servo motor.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
And if that means Fielder has to replace the actress playing Sully’s companion with a robot, dismiss the crew from the set, and masturbate in front of cameras placed on tripods, then those are reasonable sacrifices to be made for science and art.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 5 May 2025
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“Tripod.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tripod. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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tripod
noun
tri·pod
ˈtrī-ˌpäd 
1
: something (as a container or stool) resting on three legs
2
: a three-legged stand (as for a camera)
Medical Definition
tripod
noun
tri·pod
ˈtrī-ˌpäd
: a bone having three processes
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