Tripod
Portable three-legged frame or stand / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about a three-legged piece of equipment. For other uses, see Tripod (disambiguation).
A tripod is a portable three-legged frame or stand, used as a platform for supporting the weight and maintaining the stability of some other object. The three-legged (triangular stance) design provides good stability against gravitational loads as well as horizontal shear forces, and better leverage for resisting tipping over due to lateral forces can be achieved by spreading the legs away from the vertical centre. Variations with one, two, and four legs are termed monopod, bipod, and quadripod (similar to a table).