(n.) Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.
(n.) A three-legged frame or stand, usually jointed at top, for supporting a theodolite, compass, telescope, camera, or other instrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) This unilateral destabilization effectively removes one leg of the tripod, rendering that intervertebral joint potentially unstable.
(2) Earlier this month residents in Broughton, an affluent village in Buckinghamshire, formed a human chain to block a Google car, with a tripod-mounted camera on its roof.
(3) CAT scanning, arteriography of the Celiac tripod and closed hepatic needle biopsy appear to be much less decisive.
(4) Every publisher has an army of PR people who try to keep all the demos and interviews to a tight schedule, but that always falls apart within the first three hours, and then everything is chaos and camera tripods.
(5) Policymakers must aim for a "zero tripod" of separate but interdependent objectives: tackle chronic poverty; stop impoverishment; and sustain poverty escapes, the report says.
(6) Trabeculectomy for primary glaucoma was successfully combined with extracapsular lens extraction and insertion of a Pearce tripod posterior chamber lens in seven eyes of five patients.
(7) Angiography of the coeliac tripod and superior mesenteric showed the existence of a post-operative hepatopetal flow in 80% of porta-cava cases.
(8) A camera stands on a tripod with nothing much to film.
(9) The importance to proportionate stability to restoring teeth is analyzed and it is described and original and simple process to obtain tripod like supports to the occlusal restorations that affect areas of intercuspal contact, what proportionate certain clinical advantages.
(10) It was found that about 70% of molecules in the IgG1 Van specimen are not flat but have a tripod-like shape.
(11) A monkey only pressed a button of a camera set up on a tripod – a tripod I positioned and held throughout the shoot.” Last year, as the dispute simmered, Slater offered copies of a “monkey selfie” photo to purchasers willing to pay only for shipping and handling, and said he would donate $1.70 from each order to a conservation project dedicated to protecting Sulawesi’s macaques.
(12) Googlers, Story Cycle employees and Apa Sherpa spent about 11 days on the move last March, using the tripod cameras and fisheye lenses to shoot inside monasteries, schools, clinics,” said Raleigh Seamster, programme manager for Google Earth Outreach.
(13) The possible contribution of arteriography of the coeliac tripod to lymphoma staging is discussed with special regard to the demonstration of spleen and liver involvement; as regards the former, caution is advised owing to the chance of errors of interpretation; as for the latter, mention is made of the possibility of demonstrating infiltrations of the liver and stenosis of the hepatic artery due to lymphnode involvement that cannot be shown up by laparotomy.
(14) Slater has argued that he owns the copyright to the photo because although the female macaque in the picture stole the camera and took the selfie, he set up a camera on a tripod in the Indonesian forest with the correct lighting before letting the monkeys press the buttons on it after three days with them.
(15) The relationship was identical in 111 patients who had extracapsular extraction and a Pearce tripod posterior chamber intraocular lens and in 50 patients who had intracapsular extraction with spectacle correction.
(16) Radiologic revascularization procedures--i.e., percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) and fibrinolysis--are a valuable alternative to surgery in the treatment of stenoses and occlusions of the visceral vessels, that is the celiac tripod and the superior and inferior mesenteric arteries.
(17) In forty hands of thirty-three patients with post-traumatic quadriplegia and cord lesions higher than those usually thought to be benefited by reconstructive surgery, three or more procedures were performed at one or more sittings to create an active wrist extensor and a thumb flexor grip, a function easier to provide and much more useful to these patients than tripod pinch.
(18) Two model constructs of the lumbar interbody fusion, the tripod concept and flagpole concept, are presented.
(19) A color transparency of each pallor map was then obtained from the television monitor of the Optic Nerve Head Analyzer, using a camera mounted on a tripod at a fixed distance from the screen.
(20) The paper leaf gauge is narrower and more solid than the plastic leaf gauge and thus forms a better anterior leg of the tripod with the two condyles on patient-guided terminal hinge closures.
Tripos
Definition:
(n.) A tripod.
(n.) A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sybyl Tripos structure optimization indicates only minor structural changes of the folded synthetic protein compared to the similar residue positions in the native protein.
(2) Changes in conformation and molecular stability of the multi-ubiquitinated structures were determined by energy-minimization procedures using the SYBYL program developed by Tripos Associates.
(3) On the basis of experimental data and of computer calculations using the Tripos 5.3 force field in order to examine the three-dimensional structures which are sterically feasible and the conformations which are energetically the most favourable, we have designed a program of molecular modelling of biantennary glycans of the N-acetyllactosaminic type (complex type).
(4) Monoclonal antibodies were raised against F. Two of them, FCH-F8-1 and 4, were able to neutralize the infectivity of bloodstream forms, to mediate lysis by complement of cell culture derived[trypomastigotes (Tripo) and to recognize the surface of Tripo and Epi.
(5) FCH-F8-4 recognized several proteins ranging from 50 to 150 kDa on Epi and two molecules of 15 and 48 kDa on Tripo.
(6) The conformations of a disialylated monofucosylated biantennary glycan of the N-acetyllactosamine type were analysed using the Tripos 5.3 force field from the Sybyl software currently used for molecular modelling.
(7) The molecular mechanics of cholic acid micelle formation were simulated using the Sybyl energy minimization program (MAXIMIN2), developed by Tripos Associates, interfaced with micro-Vax.
(8) First, a molecular mechanical force field capable of performing conformational analysis of oligosaccharides has been derived by the addition of new parameters to the Tripos force field; it is also compatible with the simulation of protein.
(9) These extra-mural activities inevitably affected his work, and, despite a first in part one of the English Tripos, he could only manage a 2.1 in his finals.
(10) FCH-F8-1 reacted with a 85 kDa protein from Tripo (assayed by immunoprecipitation) and with peptides of 43 kDa on Epi and Tripo (tested by immunoblotting).
(11) The mechanism of retraction of the longitudinal flagellum of Ceratium tripos was studied by making extracted models of the flagellum.
(12) The computer program SYBYL 5.3 and the Tripos force field (version 5.2) were used for all the calculations.