tierce

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İngilizce - İngilizce
The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour
A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment
One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. (Also known as a third.)
A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major
A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons

Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.

The third tone of the scale. See mediant
An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag
The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height
{n} a third part of a pipe, sequence of three cards, hour, thrust in fencing
The third hour of the day, or nine a
m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour
The third of eight defensive positions in fencing
A shipping container made of plastic with a packing volume to 208 liters (approximately 55 gallons)
Minor-third partial of the tuned bell
the third canonical hour; about 9 a m
One of the five low partials of a bell, usually about a minor third above the prime Often the loudest partial, it contributes to a bell's timbre but does not affect its pitch
one of three equal parts of a divisible whole; "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement"
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
(ter-say') Divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures (Said of the field when so divided )
A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward
The third tone of the scale
The third parry or guard A high line on the side of the sword arm, with a pronated wrist
A cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc
Parry #3; blade up and to the outside, wrist pronated
are packed for shipment
A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit
Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major
Tierce de Picardie
a major third in the final tonic chord of a minor-key passage, a device mostly used in Baroque, although occasionally in Classical music, and then adopted much later on in neoclassicism
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