# Third

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**Third** or **3rd** may refer to:

## Numbers

- [3rd](/source/3), the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
- 1⁄3, a [fraction](/source/Fraction) of one third
- [1⁄60 of a *second*](/source/Second#Sexagesimal_divisions_of_calendar_time_and_day), i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system

## Places

- [3rd meridian east](/source/3rd_meridian_east), a line of longitude extending through Europe and Africa
- [3rd meridian west](/source/3rd_meridian_west), a line of longitude extending through Europe and Africa
- [3rd parallel north](/source/3rd_parallel_north), a circle of latitude above the Equator
- [3rd parallel south](/source/3rd_parallel_south), a circle of latitude below the Equator
- [3rd Street (disambiguation)](/source/3rd_Street_(disambiguation))
- [Third Avenue (disambiguation)](/source/Third_Avenue_(disambiguation))
- [Highway 3](/source/Highway_3)
- [Third Beach](/source/Third_Beach), located at Ferguson Point in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia
- [Third Brook](/source/Third_Brook), flows into West Brook by Walton, New York

## Music

### Music theory

- [Interval number](/source/Interval_number) of three in a musical interval - [Major third](/source/Major_third), a third spanning four semitones - [Minor third](/source/Minor_third), a third encompassing three half steps, or semitones - [Neutral third](/source/Neutral_third), wider than a minor third but narrower than a major third - [Augmented third](/source/Augmented_third), an interval of five semitones - [Diminished third](/source/Diminished_third), produced by narrowing a minor third by a chromatic semitone
- [Third (chord)](/source/Third_(chord)), chord member a third above the root
- [Degree (music)](/source/Degree_(music)), three away from tonic - [Mediant](/source/Mediant), third degree of the diatonic scale - [Submediant](/source/Submediant), sixth degree of the diatonic scale – three steps below the tonic - [Chromatic mediant](/source/Chromatic_mediant), chromatic relationship by thirds
- [Ladder of thirds](/source/Ladder_of_thirds), similar to the circle of fifths

### Albums

- *[Third/Sister Lovers](/source/Third/Sister_Lovers)*, a 1974 album by Big Star first released in 1978
- [*Third* (Soft Machine album)](/source/Third_(Soft_Machine_album)), 1970
- [*Third* (Portishead album)](/source/Third_(Portishead_album)), 2008
- [*Third* (Cait Brennan album)](/source/Third_(Cait_Brennan_album)), a 2017 album by Cait Brennan
- [*3rd* (The Rasmus EP)](/source/3rd_(The_Rasmus_EP)), 1996
- [*3rd* (The Baseball Project album)](/source/3rd_(The_Baseball_Project_album)), released by The Baseball Project in 2014
- [*Thirds* (album)](/source/Thirds_(album)), a 1971 album by the James Gang

## Time

- [3rd century](/source/3rd_century)
- [3rd century BC](/source/3rd_century_BC)

### Dates

- [Third of the month](/source/Third_of_the_month), a recurring calendar date - [Third of January](/source/Third_of_January) - [Third of February](/source/Third_of_February) - [Third of March](/source/Third_of_March) - [Third of April](/source/Third_of_April) - [Third of May](/source/Third_of_May) - [Third of June](/source/Third_of_June) - [Third of July](/source/Third_of_July) - [Third of August](/source/Third_of_August) - [Third of September](/source/Third_of_September) - [Third of October](/source/Third_of_October) - [Third of November](/source/Third_of_November) - [Third of December](/source/Third_of_December)

## Other uses

- [*Third* (play)](/source/Third_(play)), a 2005 work by Wendy Wasserstein
- [Third (curling)](/source/Third_(curling)), a curling position
- Thirds, third-born children in the 1985 novel *[Ender's Game](/source/Ender's_Game)*
- *Thirds*, a 2007 play by [Jacob M. Appel](/source/Jacob_M._Appel)
- [Third World](/source/Third_World), economically underdeveloped nations
- [Third-class degree](/source/Third-class_degree), a type of British undergraduate degree classification
- [Third (angle)](/source/Third_(angle)), in astronomy and cartography, fraction of a degree
- [Richard Third](/source/Richard_Third) (1927–2016), Anglican bishop in the Church of England

## See also

- [1/3 (disambiguation)](/source/1/3_(disambiguation))
- [3 (disambiguation)](/source/3_(disambiguation))
- [III (disambiguation)](/source/III_(disambiguation))
- [Number Three (disambiguation)](/source/Number_Three_(disambiguation))
- [The Third (disambiguation)](/source/The_Third_(disambiguation))
- [Third base (disambiguation)](/source/Third_base_(disambiguation))
- [Third degree (disambiguation)](/source/Third_degree_(disambiguation))
- [Third party (disambiguation)](/source/Third_party_(disambiguation))
- [Third person (disambiguation)](/source/Third_person_(disambiguation))
- [Third place](/source/Third_place), concept in sociology
- [The Third Album (disambiguation)](/source/The_Third_Album_(disambiguation))
- [Triad (disambiguation)](/source/Triad_(disambiguation))
- [Third grade](/source/Third_grade)
- [Third Fleet (disambiguation)](/source/Third_Fleet_(disambiguation))
- [Tierce (disambiguation)](/source/Tierce_(disambiguation))

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