tribrac
tribrac is the obsolete form of tribrach.
Meaning of tribrach
Noun (1)
tribrach (plural tribrachs)
- A metrical foot consisting of three short syllables.
- For your foote tribracchus of all three short, ye haue very few trissillables.1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, book ii, chapter xiii (Arb.), page 133
Noun (2)
tribrach (plural tribrachs)
- A figure or object having three arms or branches.
- An optical plummet, built into either the tribrach or alidade of total station instruments, permits accurate centering over a point.(surveying) A circular platform on three legs, each having levelling screws, used to connect a theodolite to a tripod. 2006, Paul R. Wolf, Charles D. Ghilani, chapter 8, in Elementary Surveying, 11th...
- A tribrachial prehistoric flint implement.
- In a recent examination of the registers of the Ryde Philosophical Society, Mr. Martin has found, as I have been informed through Mr. Westropp’s kindness, the entry, that the flint tribrach was presented to the collection by the late Dr. Martin in 1853, with other objects from Ventnor, and as...1873, Albert Way, “Notes on an Unique Implement of Flint, Found, as Stated, in the Isle of Wight”, in The Archæological Journal, XXX, page 31
Forms of tribrac
| plural | tribracs |
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Questions about tribrac
- What is tribrac the obsolete form of?
- Tribrac is the obsolete form of tribrach.
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