Unlike a free-hanging balcony, a tier is a level of seating within a theater containing a series of rows rising one above another The Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall has three seating tiers HOME | about us | events | planning your visit | facilities | education | residentcompanies| support+membership| buildingthecenter| news| careers+volunteers| contactus
a major horizontal collection of hardware components in a layered hardware architecture Each tier typically communicates only with the tiers immediately above and below it For example, a 4-tier hardware architecture may consist (top to bottom) of a client tier, a web-server tier, an application server tier, and a database server tier Contrast with layer
one of two or more layers one atop another; "tier upon tier of huge casks"; "a three-tier wedding cake" something that is used for tying; "the sail is fastened to the yard with tiers" a worker who ties something any one of two or more competitors who tie one another
A strip of land six miles wide, extending east and west and numbered north and south according to its distance from the base line in the rectangular (government) survey system of legal description
A tier refers to the town hall status that a unit, building, or upgrade can be unlocked at There are three tiers in WarCraft III, each one representing a different upgrade of the town hall For example Orcs are Tier 1 at Great Hall, Tier 2 at Stronghold, and Tier 3 at Fortress
Two series of limitless rows placed one above another Sales and Affiliates personally referred are on the first row or "Tier 1" Sales and Affiliates they refer are on the second row or "Tier 2" Affiliates earn 25% sales commission on their Wholesale Volume on these two tiers
In general, a tier is a row or group in a series of similarly arranged objects A tier is usually group of bytes, kbytes or data transfer blocks Some hosting services charge in blocks of sustained usage (on a monthly average) The size of a tier is not predetermined and can be defined for many applications Visit our FAQ page (Frequently Asked Questions) for more details on tier billing
The layers of application functionality in a partitioned client/server application that can usually be deployed on separate physical computers for better scalability
A set of factors all of which have the same status in the randomization The factors in different tiers must have been associated using a randomization; those in the same tier have not In standard textbook designs, where there is only one randomization, the two tiers are often referred to as block factors and treatment factors, the block factors being the unrandomized factors and the treatment factors being the randomized factors However, just two names, like 'block' and 'treatment', are inadequate for experiments involving more than two tiers Instead a general term for set of factors grouped according to the randomization is used
A tier is a row or layer of something that has other layers above or below it. the auditorium with the tiers of seats around and above it. Tier is also a combining form. a three-tier wedding cake
A tier is a level in an organization or system. Islanders have campaigned for the abolition of one of the three tiers of municipal power on the island. Tier is also a combining form. the possibility of a two-tier system of universities