tierce's Usage Examples:

It is carried up forty-three notes without a break, which is an excellent feature in a tierce mixture of only three ranks.

The dried or " finished " soda-ash is ground to a pretty fine powder and is packed into wooden casks or " tierces," holding from io to about 20 cwt.

Even in this peal, Taylors were not tuning the tierce to the theoretical value.

The hum and the tierce in the chimed bell do not affect the initial sensation of pitch, despite the loudness of these partials.

It does affect the timbre - bells with a major tierce have a clearly different quality than those with minor tierces.

His swell mixtures often had a tierce rank in the tenor octave but this was a hangover of the 18th Century English organ.

tierces in older bells occur through accident rather than design.

One suspects these major tierces in older bells occur through accident rather than design.

tierce rank in the tenor octave but this was a hangover of the 18th Century English organ.

tierce mixture of only three ranks.

In bell founding these partials have acquired their own names of hum tone, prime, tierce, quint, and nominal.

From the chart, one can see that the nominal, tierce and prime were barely touched, the hum lowered a little.

It is usually sold in " tierces," that is, casks containing about 'o cwt.

Synonyms:

common fraction, third, one-third, simple fraction,

Antonyms:

ordinal, single, untie, integrate, differentiate,