Third or 3rd may refer to:

Numbers

* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3 * , a

fraction A fraction (from la, fractus, "broken") represents a part of a whole or, more generally, any number of equal parts. When spoken in everyday English, a fraction describes how many parts of a certain size there are, for example, one-half, eight ...

of one third * ¹⁄₆₀ of a ''second'', or ¹⁄₃₆₀₀ of a ''minute''

Places

3rd Street (disambiguation) 3rd Street or Third Street may refer to: *3rd Street, Los Angeles * 3rd Street (Manhattan) * Third Street (Hong Kong) * Third Street (San Francisco) ** T Third Street, Muni Metro Muni Metro is a light rail system serving San Francisco, Califor ...

Third Avenue (disambiguation) Third Avenue is a thoroughfare in Manhattan and the Bronx, in New York City. Third Avenue or 3rd Avenue may also refer to: *Third Avenue (Brooklyn), a thoroughfare in Brooklyn, New York City * 3rd Avenue (band), a Filipino band * ''Third Avenue'' ...

* Highway 3

Music

Music theory

* Interval number of three in a musical interval **

major third In classical music, a third is a Interval (music), musical interval encompassing three staff positions (see Interval (music)#Number, Interval number for more details), and the major third () is a third spanning four semitones.Allen Forte, ...

, a third spanning four semitones **

minor third In music theory, a minor third is a musical interval that encompasses three half steps, or semitones. Staff notation represents the minor third as encompassing three staff positions (see: interval number). The minor third is one of two com ...

, a third encompassing three half steps, or semitones ** neutral third, wider than a minor third but narrower than a major third **

augmented third In classical music from Western culture, an augmented third () is an interval of five semitones. It may be produced by widening a major third by a chromatic semitone.Benward & Saker (2003). ''Music: In Theory and Practice, Vol. I'', p.54. . For ...

, 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) In music theory, the scale degree is the position of a particular note on a scale relative to the tonic, the first and main note of the scale from which each octave is assumed to begin. Degrees are useful for indicating the size of intervals a ...

, three away from tonic **

mediant In music, the mediant (''Latin'': to be in the middle) is the third scale degree () of a diatonic scale, being the note halfway between the tonic and the dominant.Benward & Saker (2003), p.32. In the movable do solfège system, the mediant note ...

, third degree of the diatonic scale **

submediant In music, the submediant is the sixth degree () of a diatonic scale. The submediant ("lower mediant") is named thus because it is halfway between tonic and subdominant ("lower dominant") or because its position below the tonic is symmetrical to ...

, sixth degree of the diatonic scale – three steps below the tonic ** chromatic mediant, chromatic relationship by thirds *

Ladder of thirds A modal frame in music is "a number of types permeating and unifying African, European, and American song" and melody., quoted in Richard Middleton (1990/2002). ''Studying Popular Music'', p. 203. Philadelphia: Open University Press. . It may ...

, similar to the circle of fifths

Albums

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Third/Sister Lovers ''Third'' (reissued in 1985 as ''Third/Sister Lovers'') is the third album by American rock band Big Star. Sessions started at Ardent Studios in September 1974. Though Ardent created promotional, white-label test pressings for the record in 197 ...

'', a 1974 album by Big Star first released in 1978 * ''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) In curling, a third (alternatively, vice, vice-skip or mate) is the team member who delivers the second-to-last pair of a team's stones in an end. The third is in charge of calling, strategy and directing the sweepers when the skip is delivering ...

, a curling position *Thirds, third-born children in the 1985 novel ''

Ender's Game ''Ender's Game'' is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind after two conflicts with an insectoid alien species they ...

'' *''Thirds'', a 2007 play by

Jacob M. Appel Jacob M. Appel (born February 21, 1973) is an American author, poet, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic.Nagamatsu, Sequoia "A Few Words with the Ubiquitous Jacob M. Appel" ''Prince Mincer'' Journal http://primemincer.com/ confirmed ...

Third World The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. The United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Western European nations and their allies represented the " First ...

, economically underdeveloped nations *

Third-class degree The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading structure for undergraduate degrees or bachelor's degrees and integrated master's degrees in the United Kingdom. The system has been applied (sometimes with significant variat ...

, a type of British undergraduate degree classification * Third (angle), in astronomy and cartography, fraction of a degree *

Richard Third Richard Henry McPhail Third (29 September 19275 May 2016) was an Anglican bishop in the Church of England. Education Third was educated at Reigate Grammar School, and then Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he gained a Master of Arts degree, b ...

(1927–2016), Anglican bishop in the Church of England *

Third Beach Third Beach is located at Ferguson Point in Stanley Park in Vancouver Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canad ...

, located at Ferguson Point in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia *

Third Brook Third Brook flows into West Brook by Walton, New York. References {{authority control Rivers of New York (state) Rivers of Delaware County, New York Tributaries of the West Branch Delaware River ...