Tier
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TIER may refer to:
Tier may refer to:
- Taiwan Institute of Economic ResearchTaiwan Institute of Economic ResearchTaiwan Institute of Economic Research is an incorporated non-profit research institute.- History :Established on September 1, 1976, it was the first independent academic research institute in Taiwan...
, one of two major economic research institutes in TaiwanTaiwanTaiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
Tier may refer to:
- a layer or rankingRankingA ranking is a relationship between a set of items such that, for any two items, the first is either 'ranked higher than', 'ranked lower than' or 'ranked equal to' the second....
or classificationClassificationClassification may refer to:* Library classification and classification in general* Taxonomic classification * Biological classification of organisms* Medical classification* Scientific classification...
-group in any real or imagined hierarchy- a layerLayerLayer may refer to:* A layer of archaeological deposits in an excavation* A layer hen, a hen raised to produce eggs* Stratum, a layer of rock or soil with internally consistent characteristics...
in a multitieredMultitier architectureIn software engineering, multi-tier architecture is a client–server architecture in which the presentation, the application processing, and the data management are logically separate processes. For example, an application that uses middleware to service data requests between a user and a database...
software architectureSoftware architectureThe software architecture of a system is the set of structures needed to reason about the system, which comprise software elements, relations among them, and properties of both... - tier (emission standard), one of a set of standards in the United States for vehicle emissions
- a layer
- A group of cable networkCable networkA cable channel is a television channel available via cable television. Such channels are usually also available via satellite television, including direct broadcast satellite providers such as DirecTV, Dish Network and BSkyB...
s offered bundled together to potential subscribers, rather than separately - Tier (song), by German band RammsteinRammsteinRammstein is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band from Berlin, formed in 1994. The band consists of members Till Lindemann , Richard Z. Kruspe , Paul H. Landers , Oliver "Ollie" Riedel , Christoph "Doom" Schneider and Christian "Flake" Lorenz...