Third
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Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
- 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
- fraction (mathematics), 1⁄3, a fraction that is one of three equal parts
- 1⁄60 of a second, or 1⁄3,600 of a minute
Places
Music
Music theory
- Interval number of three in a musical interval
- major third, a third spanning four semitones
- minor third, a third encompassing three half steps, or semitones
- neutral third, wider than a minor third but narrower than a major third
- augmented third, an interval of five semitones
- diminished third, produced by narrowing a minor third by a chromatic semitone
- Third (chord), chord member a third above the root
- Degree (music), three away from tonic
- mediant, third degree of the diatonic scale
- submediant, sixth degree of the diatonic scale – three steps below the tonic
- chromatic mediant, chromatic relationship by thirds
- Ladder of thirds, similar to the circle of fifths
Albums
- Third/Sister Lovers, a 1974 album by Big Star
- Third (Soft Machine album), 1970
- Third (Portishead album), 2008
- Third (Cait Brennan album), a 2017 album by Cait Brennan
- 3rd (The Rasmus EP), 1996
- 3rd (The Baseball Project album), released by The Baseball Project in 2014
- Thirds (album), a 1971 album by the James Gang
Other uses
- Third (play), a 2005 work by Wendy Wasserstein
- Third (curling), a curling position
- Thirds, third-born children in the 1985 novel Ender's Game
- Third World, economically underdeveloped nations
- Third-class degree, a type of British undergraduate degree classification
- Third (angle), in astronomy and cartography, fraction of a degree
- Richard Third (1927–2016), Anglican bishop in the Church of England
- Third Beach, located at Ferguson Point in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia
- Third Brook, flows into West Brook by Walton, New York
- Third Name, Odin,All Father