Complementing and Third

noun

• One of three equal parts of a divisible whole.
  • usage: "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement"
  • synonyms: one-third, tierce
• The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate. )
  • usage: "he is playing third"
  • synonyms: third base
• Following the second position in an ordering or series.
  • usage: "a distant third"; "he answered the first question willingly, the second reluctantly, and the third with resentment"
• The musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it.
  • usage: "a simple harmony written in major thirds"
• The third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle.
  • usage: "you shouldn't try to start in third gear"
  • synonyms: third gear
• The base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball.
  • usage: "he was cut down on a close play at third"
  • synonyms: third base

adjective

• Coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position.
  • synonyms: 3rd, tertiary

adverb

• In the third place.
  • usage: "third we must consider unemployment"
  • synonyms: thirdly

• (n.) The sixtieth part of a second of time.
• (a.) Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.
• (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.
• (a.) Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.
• (n.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant.
• (n.) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.