Tripod
Camera Tripod
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tripod is any three-legged structure.
- For a seat or table with three legs, see Furniture.
- For a device used to position, support, and stabilize a optical device, such as
- In the context of boiling water or cooking in a cauldron over an open fire,
- 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 the alien-built walking machines in the John Christopher science-fiction novels, see The Tripods.
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