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Third

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Third or 3rd may refer to:

Numbers

Places

  • 3rd Street (disambiguation)
  • 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, 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
  • 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
  • Third World, economically underdeveloped nations
  • Third-class degree, a type of British undergraduate degree classification
  • Third (angle), in astronomy and cartography, fraction of a degree
  • Richard Third (1927–2016), Anglican bishop in the Church of England
  • Third Beach, located at Ferguson Point in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia
  • Third Brook, flows into West Brook by Walton, New York
  • Third Name, Odin,All Father

See also

  • 1/3 (disambiguation)
  • Salvador Rodil III
  • 3 (disambiguation)
  • III (disambiguation)
  • Number Three (disambiguation)
  • The Third (disambiguation)
  • Third party (disambiguation)
  • Third person (disambiguation)
  • The Third Album (disambiguation)
  • Triad (disambiguation)
  • Third Fleet (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles containing Third
  • All pages with titles beginning with Third
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