Tribrach

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A metrical foot having three short or unstressed syllables.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A classical metrical foot having three short or unstressed syllables
  • n. A circular platform on three legs each having levelling screws; used to connect a theodolite to a tripod
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A poetic foot of three short syllables, .
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In ancient prosody, a foot consisting of three short times or syllables, two of which belong to the thesis and one to the arsis, or vice versa.
  • n. Same as tribrachial.
    • Word Usage
    "Classical prosody distinguished several other feet, some of which are occasionally mentioned in treatises on English verse: amphibrach ◡ _ ◡, tribrach ◡ ◡ ◡, pyrrhic ◡ ◡, paeon _ ◡ ◡ ◡, choriamb _ ◡ ◡ _."
     
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