third
- Ordinal number. The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.
- Noun. The person or thing in the third position.
- Noun. One of three equal parts of a whole.
- Noun. (uncountable) The third gear of an engine.
- Noun. (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
- Noun. (baseball) third base.
- Noun. (archaic) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. Also formerly known as a tierce.
- Verb. To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
- Verb. To divide into three equal parts.
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