3 (disambiguation)
Appearance
3 is a number, numeral, and glyph.
3, three, or III may also refer to:
Books
- Three of Them (Russian: Трое, literally, "three"), a 1901 novel by Maksim Gorky
- Three, a 1946 novel by William Sansom
- Three, a 1970 novel by Sylvia Ashton-Warner
- Three (novel), a 2003 suspense novel by Ted Dekker
- 3, a 2004 novel by Julie Hilden
- Three, a collection of three plays by Lillian Hellman
- Three By Flannery O'Connor, collection Flannery O'Connor bibliography
Brands
- 3 (telecommunications) or Three, a global telecommunications brand operating in Europe and Asia
- 3 Hong Kong, telecommunications company operating in Hong Kong
- Three UK, British telecommunications and internet service provider
- Three Ireland, Irish telecommunications company
- 3Arena, indoor amphitheatre in Ireland operating with the "3" brand
Film
- Three (1965 film), a Yugoslavian film by Aleksandar Petrović
- Three (1969 film), starring Charlotte Rampling and Sam Waterston
- Three (2002 film), an Asian horror movie collaboration
- 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story, a 2004 television movie
- Survival Island or Three, a 2006 film starring Billy Zane and Kelly Brook
- Three (2006 film), based on the novel with the same name
- Three (2008 film), a Telugu film
- Three – Love, Lies and Betrayal, a 2009 film starring Aashish Chaudhary, Nausheen Ali Sardar & Akshay Kapoor
- Three (2010 film), a German film also known as 3
- 3 (2012 Tamil film), a Tamil film starring Dhanush and Shruti Haasan
- 3 (2012 Uruguayan film), a Uruguayan drama film directed by Pablo Stoll
- Three (2016 film), a Hong Kong-Chinese film by Johnnie To
- 3 (2018 film), a Kannada film starring Pooja Gandhi
Television
- Three (TV series), a 1998 American series
- 3 (TV series), a 2012 CBS reality television series
- "3" (The X-Files), a 1994 episode
- 3%, a 2016 Brazilian dystopian thriller series
- 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story, a 2004 television movie
- Three's Company, 1970's TV series
- BBC Three, a British television channel
- Channel 3, television channel traditionally associated with ITV (TV network) in the UK
- Three (TV channel), a New Zealand television channel
Music
Music theory and notation
- The mediant, the third note in a major or minor scale, often called a third and notated III or iii
- A triad (music), a chord with three notes, usually spaced in thirds
- The tritone, an interval that splits the octave into three equal spaces
- A triplet, a type of tuplet, where a beat is split into three spaces
Artists
- 3 (1980s band), a rock band of Keith Emerson, Robert Berry and Carl Palmer
- 3 (American band), an experimental progressive band based in Woodstock, New York
- Three (band), a post hardcore band signed to Dischord Records
- Three, a 1960s avant-garde jazz group fronted by Don Francks
- BK3, Three or 3, a band with Bill Kreutzmann, Scott Murawski and Oteil Burbridge
- #3, the pseudonym of American musician Chris Fehn when performing with Slipknot
Albums
- Acid King III, by Acid King, 2005
- AB III, by Alter Bridge, 2010
- Three, by APB (band), 2007
- Three, by Armageddon (Swedish band), 2002
- 3 (The Atomic Bitchwax album), 2005
- III (BadBadNotGood album), 2014
- III (Banks album)
- III, by Dany Bédar, 2008
- 3 (Bo Bice album), 2010
- Three (The Black Heart Procession album), 2000
- Black Widow III, an album by Black Widow (band), 1972
- III (Gui Boratto album), 2011
- III (Chad Brock album), 2001
- 3 (Buffalo Killers album), 2011
- 3 (The Butchies album), 2001
- Three (The John Butler Trio album), 2001
- 3 (Calogero album), 2004
- Chicago III, by Chicago, 1971
- Three (Charlotte Church EP), 2013
- (III) (Crystal Castles album), 2012
- Danzig III: How the Gods Kill, by Danzig, 1992
- III (Download album), 1997
- Three (End of Everything album), 2006
- III (Espers album), 2009
- III (Eths album), 2012
- III (Family Force 5 album), 2011
- 3, by Final, 2006
- 3 (FireHouse album), 1995
- Focus 3, by Focus, 1972
- III (Foster the People EP), 2017
- Three (Gloriana album), 2015
- III (Haloo Helsinki! album), 2011
- Three, by Honey, 2001
- 3 (honeyhoney album), 2015
- 3 (Ich Troje album), 1999
- 3 (Indochine album), 1985
- Three (Bob James album), 1976
- BK3 (album) by Bruce Kulick, 2010
- Led Zeppelin III, by Led Zeppelin, 1970
- III (Lumineers album), 2019
- 3 (Mastedon album), 2009
- III (Maylene and the Sons of Disaster album), 2009
- iii (Miike Snow album), 2016
- III (Moistboyz album), 2002
- III (Stanton Moore album), 2006
- III (Mt. Egypt album), 2009
- III (Joe Nichols album), 2005
- 3 (Netsky album), 2009 (also stylised III)
- Three (Nine Days album), 1998
- 3 (Nouvelle Vague album), 2009
- III (Orbital EP), 1991
- 3, by Peace Love & Pitbulls, 1997
- Three (Ph.D. album), 2009
- Three (Phantogram album), 2016
- Three (Joel Plaskett album), 2009
- 3 (Pole album), 2000
- 3rd (The Rasmus EP), 1996
- Phase Three, by Riverdales, 2003
- Santana (1971 album), Santana, 1971 (often referred to as III)
- 3 (Alejandro Sanz album), 1995
- #3 (The Script album), 2012
- Sebadoh III, by Sebadoh, 1991
- #3 (Shakespears Sister album), 2004
- III (Shiny Toy Guns album), 2012
- III (Bob Sinclar album), 2003
- 3 (Smack EP), 2008
- 3's, by Smile Empty Soul, 2012
- 3 (Soulfly album), 2002
- III (S.O.S. Band album), 1982
- Threes (album), by Sparta, 2006
- #3 (Suburban Kids with Biblical Names album), 2005
- Three (Sugababes album), 2003
- III (Take That album), 2014
- Billy Talent III, by Billy Talent, 2009
- Three (Tubeless Hearts album), 1994
- 3 (Typical Cats album), 2012
- Three (U2 EP), 1979
- Van Halen III, by Van Halen, 1998
- 3 (Violent Femmes album), 1989
Songs
- "3" (Britney Spears song), 2009
- "3", a song by Disturbed from their 2011 album The Lost Children
- "3", a 1986 song by Ultravox used as B-side of "Same Old Story", and re-released on U-Vox
- Song Three, a song from the Mahagonny-Songspiel
- Song 3, a song from the 2002 Robbie Williams album Escapology (album)
- "Three", a song by Strawberry Alarm Clock
- "Three", a song by Jimmy Newman
- "Three", a song by Massive Attack from the 1994 album Protection
- "Three", a song by The Wedding Present from Hit Parade 1
- "Three", a song by Future and Young Thug from the 2017 mixtape Super Slimey
- "Three", a song by Lily Allen from No Shame
- "Tres" (song), aka "3", a 2008 song by Juanes
- "The Magic Number", a song by De La Soul, sometimes erroneously called "The Three Song", from the album 3 Feet High and Rising
- "3", a song by Flume from the album Skin
- ".3", a song by Porcupine Tree from the album In Absentia
Other music
- 3 Songs (disambiguation)
- 3 EPs, a 1994 Tall Dwarfs EP
- The Three E.P.'s, a 1998 The Beta Band album
- 3 (soundtrack)
Science and technology
- 3, an approximation of pi to the nearest integer
- 3, an approximation of e to the nearest integer
- 3, the resin identification code for polyvinyl chloride
- 3, the DVD region code for many East Asian countries (except for Japan and China)
- Group 3 element, often written as III
Transportation
Automobiles
- Mazda3, a compact sedan/hatchback built since 2003.
- BMW 3 Series, a compact executive sedan/station wagon/fastback built since 1975.
- Lynk & Co 03, a compact sedan built since 2018.
- MG3 (car), a subcompact hatchback/crossover built since 2011.
- Qoros 3, a compact sedan/hatchback/crossover built since 2013.
Transportation lines
- 3 (New York City Subway service), a service of the New York City Subway
Other uses
- Shithead (card game), a card game, alternate name threes
- Three-point field goal, a long shot in basketball
- Threes, a game on the iPhone
- Company (musical), a musical originally titled Threes
- Model 3 (disambiguation)
- Type III (disambiguation)
- Class 3 (disambiguation)
- Three, a personality type of the Enneagram of Personality typology
- 3, Triq ix-Xatt, a nineteenth-century building in Marsaskala, Malta
- Three Percenters, a far-right American paramilitary group advocating gun rights and resisting government
Similar glyphs
- Open-mid central unrounded vowel, ɜ, of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), used in Cherokee and some English pronunciation
- Ezh (letter), Ʒ, a symbol for dram
- Lowercase ezh, ʒ, representing the Voiced palato-alveolar sibilant of the IPA, used in several African languages
- Dram (unit) (ℨ) and Gothic font letter Z
- Yogh or Ȝ, letter used in Middle English and Middle Scots
- Gyfu or Gar (rune) Anglo Saxon runes transliterated as ȝ
- Ze (Cyrillic) or З, eleventh letter of Kazakh, tenth letter of Ukrainian, Dungan, ninth letter of Russian, Belarusian, Uzbek, Serbo-Croatian, Mongolian, eighth letter of Bulgarian and Kyrgyz alphabets; and Cyrillic numeral 7
- E (Cyrillic) or Э, fortieth letter of Kazakh, thirty-fifth letter of Dungan, thirty-third letter of Mongolian, thirty-first letter of Russian, thirtieth letter of Belarusian, twenty-eighth letter of Kyrgyz, and twenty-seventh letter of Uzbek alphabets
- Abkhazian Dze or Ӡ, nineteenth letter of Abkhazian Cyrillic script alphabet
- Ro (kana) or ろ, in hiragana Japanese script
- ③, one of the Enclosed Alphanumerics
- Da̰ dwé or ဒ, nineteenth letter of Burmese alphabet
- Vin or ვ, sixth letter of Georgian alphabet and Georgian numeral 6
- Kan or კ, eleventh letter of Georgian alphabet and Georgian numeral 20
- Par or პ, seventeenth letter of Georgian alphabet and Georgian numeral 80
- Vie or ჳ, obsolete twenty-second letter of Georgian alphabet
- Hi or Յ, twenty-first letter of Armenian alphabet and Armenian numeral 300
- ౩, Telugu alphabet numeral 3
- ૩, Gujarati alphabet numeral 3
- ३, Devanagari numeral 3
- ੩, Gurmukhī alphabet numeral 3
- ༣, Tibetan alphabet numeral 3
See also
- Lithium (atomic number), a chemical element
- Samsung Galaxy 3, a smartphone
- 03 (disambiguation)
- III (disambiguation)
- Number Three (disambiguation)
- Third (disambiguation)
- List of highways numbered 3