Usually means: One of three equal parts.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. third: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. third: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. third: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. third: Collins English Dictionary
  5. third: Vocabulary.com
  6. Third, third: Wordnik
  7. third: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. third: Wiktionary
  9. third: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. third: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. third: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. third: Dictionary.com
  13. third (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. third: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Third, Third (Big Star album), Third (Portishead album), Third (Soft Machine album), Third (album), Third (angle), Third (chord), Third (curling), Third (disambiguation), Third (play), Third: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Third: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. third: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. third: Rhymezone
  19. third: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. third: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. third: Free Dictionary
  22. third: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. third: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. third: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Third, Third: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops
  4. SimplyTheBest Music Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. third: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. third: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. third: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. third: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. third: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. third: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. third: The Folk File
  3. Third: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See thirding as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.
noun:  The person or thing in the third position.
noun:  One of three equal parts of a whole.
noun:  (uncountable) The third gear of a gearbox.
noun:  (music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
noun:  (baseball) third base
noun:  (golf) A handicap of one stroke every third hole.
noun:  A third-class degree, awarded to the lowest achievers in an honours degree programme
noun:  (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.
verb:  (informal) To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded.
verb:  To divide into three equal parts.

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