(a.) Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.
(a.) Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the third part of a day.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.
(n.) The sixtieth part of a second of time.
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
(2) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
(3) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
(4) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
(5) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(6) A third group of healthy children was added for comparison.
(7) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(8) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
(9) However, about one-third of the melanomas showed a higher surviving fraction at 2.0 Gy than the highest value measured for the other tumors.
(10) The third route was quantitated by its sensitivity to probenecid and its activity was increased in saline buffers and upon addition of glucose and was inhibited by oligomycin.
(11) The G+C content of the third base of the codon in the tufB gene was 84.8% and G was especially preferred in this position.
(12) In lactate medium the capacity of each AIB carrier is unchanged but its affinity is reduced to one-third.
(13) Of the sampled population, 6.3 per cent exhibited some degree of hypodontia (third molar agenesis excluded).
(14) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
(15) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(16) Patients with MID, but not those with DAT, exhibited correlations between enlargement of the third and lateral ventricles and severity of cognitive impairment.
(17) Two-thirds of the specimens tested gave positive results.
(18) NE differentially affected responses to stimulus movement in the preferred and non-preferred direction in one-third of these neurons, such that directional selectivity was increased.
(19) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(20) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.
Thirdly
Definition:
(adv.) In the third place.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
(2) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
(3) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
(4) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
(5) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(6) A third group of healthy children was added for comparison.
(7) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(8) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
(9) However, about one-third of the melanomas showed a higher surviving fraction at 2.0 Gy than the highest value measured for the other tumors.
(10) The third route was quantitated by its sensitivity to probenecid and its activity was increased in saline buffers and upon addition of glucose and was inhibited by oligomycin.
(11) The G+C content of the third base of the codon in the tufB gene was 84.8% and G was especially preferred in this position.
(12) In lactate medium the capacity of each AIB carrier is unchanged but its affinity is reduced to one-third.
(13) Of the sampled population, 6.3 per cent exhibited some degree of hypodontia (third molar agenesis excluded).
(14) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
(15) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(16) Patients with MID, but not those with DAT, exhibited correlations between enlargement of the third and lateral ventricles and severity of cognitive impairment.
(17) Two-thirds of the specimens tested gave positive results.
(18) NE differentially affected responses to stimulus movement in the preferred and non-preferred direction in one-third of these neurons, such that directional selectivity was increased.
(19) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(20) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.