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Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
- 3 (number), such as the 3rd of something
- fraction (mathematics), ⅓, a fraction that is one of three equal parts
- 1/60 of a second, or 1/3,600 of a minute
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, 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, similar to the circle of fifths
Albums
- Third/Sister Lovers, a 1974 album by Big Star
- Third (Soft Machine album), 1970
- Third (Portishead album), 2008
- 3rd (The Rasmus EP), 1996
- 3rd (The Baseball Project album), released by The Baseball Project in 2014
- Thirds, 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
- Third World, economically underdeveloped nations
- Third-class degree, type of British undergraduate degree classification
- Third (angle), in astronomy and cartography, a 60th of a second, a 3600th of a minute, a 216,000th of a degree
See also
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