{
  "id": "third.ordinal",
  "term": "third",
  "sense": "ordinal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 13,
  "arena": "third",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the position in a sequence that follows second and precedes four",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "order.arrangement",
      "difference.relation",
      "come.arrive",
      "four.cardinal",
      "space.extent",
      "time.dimension",
      "follows.sequential",
      "position.spatial",
      "precedes.temporal",
      "second.temporal"
    ],
    "interaction": "order arrangement organizes positions in time and space, where difference relation distinguishes second from four, and coming establishes the movement to the intermediate place",
    "novel_properties": [
      "intermediate sequence position",
      "temporal succession",
      "spatial ordering"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Neeraj Chopra won third place in the men's javelin throw with a throw of 87.58 meters.",
      "domain": "sports"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 2 spacecraft passed Neptune, becoming the third human-made object to enter interstellar space.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    },
    {
      "text": "In Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, the third movement is a lively scherzo in triple time, following the second movement's funeral march.",
      "domain": "music"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "number.quantity",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "first.order",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "fourth.ordinal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "third",
    "thirds"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "second.temporal is used in the definition implicitly as 'second'; added to components to correct omission."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-third.ordinal"
}