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third

English

  1. 🔊 coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position
  2. 🔊 the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it
    “a simple harmony written in major thirds”
  3. 🔊 following the second position in an ordering or series
    “a distant third”
  4. 🔊 the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
    “he is playing third”
  5. 🔊 the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
    “he was cut down on a close play at third”
  6. 🔊 the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle
    “you shouldn't try to start in third gear”
  7. 🔊 one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
    “it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement”
  8. 🔊 in the third place
    “third we must consider unemployment”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 tercero third
  2. 🔊 tercio third, one of three equal parts

Similar words

third base third base third gear one-third tierce 3rd tertiary thirdly consecutive intervals degree diapason diatessaron diatonic interval diatonic semitone divide in thirds enharmonic diesis enharmonic interval fifth fourth half step halftone interval irregular less semitone