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tier count

also called number of tiers

How many cascade tiers a chocolate fountain's molten chocolate falls over, as a numeral with the tier count-unit (e.g. 3 tiers, 4 tiers, 5 tiers) — the definitional STRUCTURAL feature that makes it a fountain rather than a warming basin ('N-Tier Chocolate Fountain' is on every box). It is NOT the serving-size spec: serving capacity tracks the chocolate charge (chocolate_capacity), not the tier count — the Sephra CF44RC convertible runs as a 3-tier or a 5-tier on one machine at the same ~10 kg / 200-guest rating. Required: every fountain has a tier count. Homes on ChocolateFountain. Reuses TierCountUnits.

Tier count is a count — a whole number of tiers.

It belongs to measurement — its measurable, physical facts.

asked by the kinds that answer it

1 kind answers it, each for a single value. The same question can be reused by unrelated kinds — one meaning, many homes.

answered with
number + unit — a number paired with a unit drawn from an exhaustive unit vocabulary.
value domain
Tier count units — the vocabulary its answers are drawn from.
concern
Measurement — the facet of a product it belongs to.

asked by kinds that answer it

The same question can be reused by unrelated kinds — one meaning, many homes.

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chocolate fountain required · one