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Definition of Tripos

1. Noun. Final honors degree examinations at Cambridge University.

Definition of Tripos

1. n. A tripod.

Definition of Tripos

1. Noun. (obsolete) A three-legged structure; a tripod. ¹

2. Noun. Any of the final examinations for a BA honours degree at Cambridge University. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tripos

1. a tripod [n -ES] - See also: tripod

Medical Definition of Tripos

1. 1. A tripod. 2. A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper. Classical tripos examination, the final university examination for classical honors, optional to all who have taken the mathematical honors. 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. Origin: Gr. A tripod. See Tripod. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Tripos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1867)
"On the Subjects required in the Classical tripos Examination and in the Trinity ... It is probable that a revision of the Cambridge Classical tripos system ..."

2. A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge by Walter William Rouse Ball (1889)
"CHAPTER X. THE MATHEMATICAL tripos'. I TRACED in chapter V. the steps by which ... The history of the tripos is also treated in Of a liberal education, ..."

3. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1890)
"PG Fawcett Attains Higher Position than Senior Wrangler, 9 ; 7 « — Mathematical tripos. Note on, 12 / 7 < Tabulate J Tables of Honours, ..."

4. Sonnenschein's Cyclopædia of Education: A Handbook of Reference on All by Alfred Ewen Fletcher (1889)
"The old bachelor's speeches, which generally had a quasi-philosophic title, and were composed in Latin hexameters, were known as the tripos Speeches, ..."

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