third
/θɜːd/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
- To divide into three equal parts.
- The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.
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