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WIKTIONARY
third
Adjective
  • The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.
Noun
  • The person or thing in the third position.
  • One of three equal parts of a whole.
  • The third gear of a gearbox. uncountable
  • An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale. music
  • third base baseball
  • 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. archaic
Verb
  • To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
  • To divide into three equal parts.