title: Tier
text: # Tier
  
  Tier may refer to:
  
  ## Groupings
  
  * Organizational, a ranking relationship involving order in a collective and its subordinate components
  * Ranking, a relationship involving order between a set of observations or variables
  * Data center tiers, Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers, which defines a level in terms of "tiers"
  * Multitiered or multilayered, a tier based system in software architecture
  * Tier (emission standard), rankings of emission standards in the US
  * Standings or rankings are listings which compare sports teams or individuals, institutions, nations, companies, or other entities by ranking them in order of ability or achievement
  * Tier list, a list of playable characters ranked by their abilities in competitive settings
  * Tiers of suppliers in a supply chain
  
  ## Other
  
  * A row of moorings or anchorages for ships
  * A variant of the surname Thiers
  * Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, one of two major economic research institutes in Taiwan
  * "Tier" (song), by German band Rammstein
  * A fictional character in Marvel Comics; son of Hrimhari and Wolfsbane
  * TIER Mobility, a shared e-scooter operator company from Germany
  