tripos
IPA: trˈipoʊz
noun
- (obsolete) A three-legged structure; a tripod.
- (Cambridge University) Any of the final examinations for a BA honours degree.
- (Cambridge University) The list of successful candidates in such an examination.
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Examples of "tripos" in Sentences
- The knife and the cane, menacing each other, were like tripos and short sword in a gladiatorial combat.
- At Cambridge he had done very well, in the early days of the tripos, and was chosen fellow and tutor of Gonville and
- Thales sent the golden tripos, which the fishermen found, and the oracle commanded to be [429] given to the wisest, to Bias,
- Oxygen is indispensable for the life of the tissues, and its supply is dependent upon the integrity of the three organs mentioned, which have been called the tripos of life.
- He got a 'double first' anyone who's survived the Cambridge music tripos will know that that takes a lot of doing, then headed for postgraduate studies at Princeton; last time I heard of him, several years ago, he was freelancing as a violinist in New York.
- Moreover, I rejoice that next year is just the season for the triennial examinations, and you should start for the capital with all despatch; and in the tripos next spring, you will, by carrying the prize, be able to do justice to the proficiency you can boast of.
- And Daniel in particular went on to use it as a home from home whento his surprise, I think, and certainly to ourshe eventually settled in Israel after his graduation, with a double first, in his tripos course of archaeology, anthropology and social and political science, from Cambridge.
- Cambridge University, England, one who has attained the first class in the elementary division of the public examination for honors in pure and mixed mathematics, commonly called the mathematical tripos, those who compose the second rank of honors being designated senior optimes, and those of the third order junior optimes.
- Candidates for honours have to pass in certain additional subjects in their "little go", being then exempt from further examination until the final, or "tripos" -- a word sometimes derived from the three-legged stool on which candidates formerly sat, but now referring to the three classes into which successful candidates are divided.
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