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The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second. quotations examples
The second and third quarters of the shield are indecipherable on the stone but clearer in two other representations of the arms, a painted wooden funeral hatchment for Mary Davie […]
2012 October 8, Daniel W. Patterson, The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry, UNC Press Books, page 141
countable and uncountable, plural thirds
The person or thing in the third position. examples
One of three equal parts of a whole. examples
(uncountable) The third gear of a gearbox. examples
(music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale. examples
(baseball) third base examples
(golf) A handicap of one stroke every third hole. examples
A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme examples
(archaic) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. Also formerly known as a tierce.
third-person singular simple present thirds, present participle thirding, simple past and past participle thirded
(informal) To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded. examples
To divide into three equal parts. examples