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Tierce

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Tierce comes from the Latin word for third and may refer to:

  • Tiercé, a commune in France
  • Tierce (fencing), a fencing manoeuvre
  • Tierce (unit), both an archaic volume unit of measure of goods and the name of the cask of that size
  • Tierce, an organ stop, also known as a seventeenth
  • Tierce, an archaic term for one-sixtieth of a second, equal to ⁠1/216,000⁠ of an hour, 16.6 milliseconds
  • Tierce, a horse racing bet type also known as a trifecta
  • Tierced in heraldry, the dividing of the field into three sections, per pale or per fess

See also

  • Terce, the third liturgical hour

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