Third Third

Third - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Diapason, Diatessaron, Fifth, Fourth, Halftone, Interval, Note, Octave, Second, Semitone, Seventh, Sixth, Step, Tertiary

In music, see the following intervals:

The mediant, and the chord built on the mediant, is often called simply the third, as it is the third degree of the diatonic scale.

In Mathematics, Third is also the ordinal number corresponding to three, as well as the fraction <math>\frac {1} {3} <math>

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