two-tier

Examples of tier

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There are three tiers to this new settlement.
Adopting this approach locally does not, however, justify stronger theoretical claims about the relative importance of the tiers.
The substructure has nine tiers with four stairways, one facing each of the cardinal directions.
The effigy vessels discussed in this article have been recovered from all three tiers within this hierarchy.
The implication is that all three tiers can be described in terms of measurable characters and used in comparative analysis.
At national level, there are two main tiers to the machinery.
In this specimen five tiers of sporophylls are preserved.
First, on the word, syllable, onset-rime, skeletal, and segmental tiers, matches between the child's attempts and the target phonemes were calculated.
A second piece of evidence for the separation of segmental and prosodic tiers in children's productions is the use of filler syllables by children.
The regionalized system, with its four hospital tiers, provides a clear hierarchy for acquisition of sophisticated new technologies.
Regional administration is vertically divided into several tiers which are tightly linked by the principle of hierarchical control.
We put these higher tiers to use just below.
I assume they are deployed on independent tiers in classic autosegmental fashion.
The three tiers of monitoring provide a range of information necessary for the management of clean-up operations.
We can reduce stadia to tiers but not human beings.
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tier

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bottom tier
The control node runs at a slower rate than the bottomtier nodes.
middle tier
Depending on whether messages are conflicting or uniform, either the middletier of sophisticates or the most sophisticated may be most likely to change survey responses.
multiple tiers
Many of the countries in the study have multiple tiers of benefit provision with employment-based arrangements occupying a central place.
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