tripod

     

Tripo is a word generally used to refer to a three-legged object, generally one used as a platform of some sort, and comes from the Greek tripous, meaning "three feet".

Trivia about tripod

  • To avoid a shaky picture, use this device that stands on its own 3 feet
  • The multi-legged stand that supports your surveying equipment
  • Use this device with telescoping legs when slow shutter speed requires a steady camera
  • It's the 3-legged support often used by a photographer
  • Originally this word for a camera stand was the seat of the priestess of the Oracle at Delphi