Tripod
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Tripod 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".
Tripod may also refer to:
- sacrificial tripod, an ancient Greek altar
- Tripod (photography), a device used to position, support, and stabilize
- Tripod (The War of the Worlds), a fictional weapon
- The Tripods, a series of science-fiction novels by English author John Christopher
- Tripod.com, a webhosting service
- M2 tripod, a machine gun tripod
- A portable crane (machine)
- Visual Basic, whose forerunner was called tripod
- A nickname for Alice in Chains (album), the final studio album by Alice in Chains
- The "triPods", a parody of both the iPod and the War of the Worlds from Scary Movie 4
- A nickname for a man with an unusually large penis
- Tripod (band), a musical comedy
- TriPod the band, a rock band with no guitars or keyboards