▸ adjective: The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second. ▸ noun: The person or thing in the third position. ▸ noun: One of three equal parts of a whole. ▸ noun: (uncountable) The third gear of a gearbox. ▸ noun: (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale. ▸ noun: (baseball) third base ▸ noun: (golf) A handicap of one stroke every third hole. ▸ noun: A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme ▸ 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. ▸ verb: (informal) To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded. ▸ verb: To divide into three equal parts.
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