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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
- 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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