Third

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1. Adjective

Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.

2. Adjective

Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.

3. Noun

The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.

4. Noun

The sixtieth part of a second of time.

5. Noun

The third tone of the scale; the mediant.

6. Noun

The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.

7. Noun

one of three equal parts of a divisible whole; "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement"
Vocabulary classified under Mathematics

8. Noun

following the second position in an ordering or series; "a distant third"; "he answered the first question willingly, the second reluctantly, and the third with resentment"
Vocabulary classified under Sociology
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