Thesaurus: third

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1. a. Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.
2. a. Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.
3. n. The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.
4. n. The sixtieth part of a second of time.
5. n. The third tone of the scale; the mediant.
6. n. The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.
7. adj. coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position
8. n. one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
9. n. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
10. n. following the second position in an ordering or series
11. n. the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it
12. n. the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle