third

Meanings

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.
• An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
• third base
• A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
• A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
• 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.
• To divide into three equal parts.

Related

Similar words

• 3rd, 3d, IIIrd, III
• third gear
• third part, ⅓

Origin

• From Middle English thirde, thridde, from Old English þridda, from Proto-Germanic *þridjô, from Pre-Germanic *tretyós, a remodeling of Proto-Indo-European *tr̥tyós.