third

  1. Ordinal number.  The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.
  2. Noun.  The person or thing in the third position.
  3. Noun.  One of three equal parts of a whole.
  4. Noun.  (uncountable) The third gear of an engine.
  5. Noun.  (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
  6. Noun.  (baseball) third base.
  7. 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.
  8. Verb.  To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
  9. Verb.  To divide into three equal parts.

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