[instrument] A tribrach is an attachment plate used to attach a surveying instrument, for example a theodolite, total station, GNSS antenna or target to a tripod. A tribrach allows the survey instrument to be repeatedly placed in the same position with sub-millimetre precision, by just loosening and re-tightening a locking handle or lever. ...
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[poetry] A tribrach is a metrical foot used in formal poetry and Greek and Latin verse. In quantitative meter (such as the meter of classical verse), it consists of three short syllables; in accentual-syllabic verse (such as formal English verse), the tribrach consists of three unstressed syllables. According to some sources, another name f...
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• (n.) A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, meblius.
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In Greek poetry, a three-syllable foot in which each foot is unstressed or short--rarely used in Eng
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Greek and latin metrical foot consisting of short, short, and short syllables / ~ ~ ~ /.
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Classical meter consisting of three short syllables per foot. Such a foot would be extremely rare in English poetry.
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short-short-short
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