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 line in San Francisco *N3RD Street (Philadelphia) * Third Street, Singap ...

* Third Avenue (disambiguation) * Highway 3

Music

Music theory

* Interval number of three in a musical interval ** major third, a third spanning four semitones ** minor third, 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), 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 i ...

, third degree of the diatonic scale ** submediant, 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 al ...

, similar to the circle of fifths

Albums

*'' Third/Sister Lovers'', 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), 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 dub ...

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

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* Third World, 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 variati ...

, a type of British undergraduate degree classification *

Third (angle) A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle in which one full rotation is 360 degrees. It is not an SI unit—the SI unit of angular measure is th ...

, 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, be ...

(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 List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city ...

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

Third Brook Third Brook flows into West Brook by Walton, New York Walton is a town in Delaware County, New York, United States. The population was 5,576 at the 2010 census. The town is in the west-central part of the county and contains the village of W ...