(n): the quotient of two integers
(n): 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)
(n): (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
(n): following the second position in an ordering or series
(n): relative status
(n): the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it
(n): the difference in pitch between two notes
(n): the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle
(n): a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle)
(n): the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
(n): a place that the runner must touch before scoring
(adj): coming next after the second and just before the fourth in position
(adj): vs. cardinal) -- (being or denoting a numerical order in a series
(adv): in the third place
