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Definition of Triposes

Triposes
Tripos Tri"pos, n.; pl. Triposes. [Gr. ? a tripod. See Tripod.] 1. A tripod. [Obs.] --Dryden. 2. A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper. [Cambridge University, Eng.] Classical tripos examination, the final university examination for classical honors, optional to all who have taken the mathematical honors. --C. A. Bristed. Tripos paper, a printed list of the successful candidates for mathematical honors, accompanied by a piece in Latin verse. There are two of these, designed to commemorate the two tripos days. The first contains the names of the wranglers and senior optimes, and the second the names of the junior optimes. The word tripos is supposed to refer to the three-legged stool formerly used at the examinations for these honors, though some derive it from the three brackets formerly printed on the back of the paper. --C. A. Bristed.

Meaning of Triposes from wikipedia

- A Tripos (/ˈtraɪpɒs/ , plural 'Triposes') is an academic examination that originated at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. They include...
- TRIPOS (TRIvial Portable Operating System) is a computer operating system. Development started in 1976 at the Computer Laboratory of Cambridge University...
- The Mathematical Tripos is the mathematics course that is taught in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. In its classical nineteenth-century...
- Tripos muelleri is a species of dinoflagellates of the genus Tripos. This chromist is easy to recognize and identify among all the phytoplankton, because...
- Natural Sciences Tripos (NST) is the framework within which most of the science at the University of Cambridge is taught. The tripos includes a wide range...
- Tripos may refer to: Tripos, a course system at the University of Cambridge TRIPOS, a computer operating system Tripos (dinoflagellate), a genus of marine...
- The Computer Science Tripos (CST) is the undergraduate course in computer science offered by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. It evolved...
- The classical Tripos is the taught course in classics at the Faculty of classics, University of Cambridge. It is equivalent to Literae Humaniores at Oxford...
- determined to be invalid. Tripos aequatorialis (Schröder) F.Gómez Tripos aestuarius (Schröder) F.Gómez Tripos allieri (Gourret) F.Gómez Tripos angustocornis (N...
- Tripos elegans is a species of dinoflagellates in the family Ceratiaceae. Gómez, F. (2013). Reinstatement of the dinoflagellate genus Tripos to replace...