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third

1. coming after the second and preceding the fourth in numbering or counting order, position, time, etc.; being the ordinal number of three: often written 3rd

2. denoting the third from lowest forward ratio of a gearbox in a motor vehicle

a. one of three equal or nearly equal parts of an object, quantity, etc.

b. (as modifier): a third part

4. the fraction equal to one divided by three (1/3)

5. the forward ratio above second of a gearbox in a motor vehicle. In some vehicles it is the top gear

a. the interval between one note and another three notes away from it counting inclusively along the diatonic scale

b. one of two notes constituting such an interval in relation to the other

7. Brit an honours degree of the third and usually the lowest class

8. goods of a standard lower than that of seconds

Third

a unit of time equal to 1/60 of a second. The unit is seldom used. In modern physics, small intervals of time are usually expressed in decimal fractions of a second: milliseconds (10^–3sec), microseconds (10^–6sec), and nanoseconds (10^–9 sec).

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It has harmonic clarity with ground bass and minor thirds never far away, and Mozartian humanity combining buffo humour with darker emotions.

Exquisite performance celebrates Norway's centenary by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)

He accompanied this modified melody with only a second voice in the bottom parallels of minor thirds or major seconds, but on the organ this two-part pattern sounds in two top and in two bottom octaves.

Kabelac's message: the electro-acoustic composition E fontibus ... by Nouza, Zdenek / Czech Music

The composer Draws out the minor thirds, the brass Tumbles overhead like virgin logs Felled from their forest, washing ownriver, And the rivermen at song.

The eighth and thirteenth by Ostriker, Alicia / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought

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