Tribrach For Surveying Instruments
Tribrach can refer to: *Tribrach (poetry), a metrical foot of three short syllables. *Tribrach (instrument) A tribrach with an optical plummet (the black cylinder pointing to the left lower corner of the image). A tribrach is an attachment plate used to attach a surveying instrument, for example a theodolite, total station, GNSS antenna or target to a t ...

Tribrach (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 a run of three short syllables substituted for a trochee. A "tribrach word" is a word consisting of three short syllables, such as Latin "shining" or Greek "you have".W. M. Lindsay (1919), ''Early Latin Verse'', pp. 105–6. An English equivalent would be a word with three short syllables such as ''Canada'' or ''passenger''. The origin of the word tribrach is the Greek , derived from the prefix - "three" and the adjective "short". Terminology The name is first recorded in the Roman writer Quintilian (1st century AD). According to Quintilian, an alternative name for a tribrach, was a "trochee": ("Three short syllables make a , but those who give the name to the prefer to call it a .") Quintilian himself referr ...
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