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, 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 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 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'' *''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 ...