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tri-tiered

tri-tiered adjective: having three tiers.

Adjective

tri-tiered (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Having three tiers.
    • The architecture of the program will be tri-tiered; the global tier which connects major geographic regions, the regional tier which connects countries within a geographic region, and the domestic tier that will connect population centers within a country.1999, Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi, Exporting Communication Technology to Developing Countries, →ISBN, page 69
    Synonyms:
    three-tiered

Synonyms of tri-tiered

Origin of tri-tiered

From tri- + tiered.

Questions about tri-tiered

What does tri-tiered mean?
Tri-tiered means having three tiers.
What part of speech is tri-tiered?
Tri-tiered is an adjective.

Words near tri-tiered in the dictionary

  1. tri-rocker
  2. tri-rockers
  3. tri-rotor
  4. tri-rotors
  5. tri-state
  6. tri-tiered
  7. tri-tip
  8. tri-tips
  9. tri-tone
  10. tri-toned
  11. tri-unitarianism

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