The ordinal number matching the number three in a series, The transmission gear or gear ratio used to produce forward speeds next higher to those of second in a motor vehicle, The interval between any tone and a tone on the third degree above or below it, adjective_ Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three, adjective Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three, The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second, verb_ To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been seconded, To divide into three equal parts, adverb_ in the third place
An idea that has been demonstrated as true or is assumed to be so demonstrable, The proposition that the velocity of a liquid flowing from a reservoir is equal to what it would have if it were to fall freely from the level in the reservoir; or, more generally, if p is the pressure, p the density, V the potential of the forces, q the resultant velocity, A a certain quantity constant along a streamline, then, given by Daniel Bernoulli (1700?82) in 1738