3 (disambiguation) explained

3 is a number, numeral, and glyph.

3, three, or III may also refer to:

• AD 3, the third year of the AD era
• 3 BC, the third year before the AD era
• March, the third month

Books

• • 3, a 2004 novel by Julie Hilden Three, a 1946 novel by William Sansom
  • Three, a 1970 novel by Sylvia Ashton-Warner Three, a collection of three plays by Lillian Hellman
• Three (comics), a graphic novel by Kieron Gillen
• Three (novel), a 2003 suspense novel by Ted Dekker
• Three By Flannery O'Connor, collection Flannery O'Connor bibliography
• Three of Them (Russian: Russian: Трое, literally, "three"), a 1901 novel by Maksim Gorky

Brands

• 3 (telecommunications), a global telecommunications brand
  • 3Arena, indoor amphitheatre in Ireland operating with the "3" brand
  • 3 Hong Kong, telecommunications company operating in Hong Kong
  • Three Australia, Australian telecommunications company
  • Three Ireland, Irish telecommunications company
  • Three UK, British telecommunications and internet service provider
  • Wind Tre, Italian telecommunications company

Film

• Three (1965 film), a Yugoslavian film by Aleksandar Petrović
• Three (1969 film), starring Charlotte Rampling and Sam Waterston
• Three (2002 film), an Asian horror movie collaboration
• , a 2004 television movie
• Survival Island or Three, a 2005 film starring Billy Zane and Kelly Brook
• Three (2006 film), based on the novel with the same name
• Three (2008 film), a Telugu film
• Three – Love, Lies and Betrayal, a 2009 film starring Aashish Chaudhary, Nausheen Ali Sardar & Akshay Kapoor
• Three (2010 film), a German film also known as 3
• 3 (1996 film), an Italian film also known as Tre
• 3 (2012 Tamil film), a Tamil film starring Dhanush and Shruti Haasan
• 3 (2012 Uruguayan film), a Uruguayan drama film directed by Pablo Stoll
• Three (2016 film), a Hong Kong-Chinese film by Johnnie To
• 3 (2018 film), a Kannada film starring Pooja Gandhi
• Three (2020 film), a 2020 film Kazakh-South Korean film
• The Three (film), a 2020 Russian film
• III (film), a 2022 Canadian film

Television

• Three (TV series), a 1998 American series
• 3 (TV series), a 2012 CBS reality television series
• "3" (The X-Files), a 1994 episode
• , a 2004 television movie
• BBC Three, a British television channel.
• Channel 3, television channel traditionally associated with ITV (TV network) in the UK
• Three (TV channel), a New Zealand television channel

Music

Music theory and notation

• The mediant, the third note in a major or minor scale, often called a third and notated III or iii
• A triad (music), a chord with three notes, usually spaced in thirds
• A triplet, a type of tuplet, where a beat is split into three spaces

Artists

• 3 (1980s band), a rock band of Keith Emerson, Robert Berry and Carl Palmer
• 3 (American band), an experimental progressive band based in Woodstock, New York
• III, the Inti Creates sound team
• Three (band), a post hardcore band signed to Dischord Records
• Three, a 1960s avant-garde jazz group fronted by Don Francks
• Thriii, an American girl group composed of China Anne McClain, Sierra McClain, and Lauryn McClain
• BK3, Three or 3, a band with Bill Kreutzmann, Scott Murawski and Oteil Burbridge
• #3, the pseudonym of American musician Chris Fehn when performing with Slipknot

Albums

• Acid King III, by Acid King, 2005
• AB III, by Alter Bridge, 2010
• Three, by APB (band), 2007
• Three, by Armageddon (Swedish band), 2002
• 3 (The Atomic Bitchwax album), 2005
• III (Bad Books album), 2019
• III (BadBadNotGood album), 2014
• III (Banks album), 2019
• III, by Dany Bédar, 2008
• 3 (Bo Bice album), 2010
• 3, by Murat Boz, 2024
• Billy Talent III, by Billy Talent, 2009
• Three (The Black Heart Procession album), 2000
• Black Widow III, an album by Black Widow (band), 1972
• Three (Blue Man Group album), 2016
• III (Gui Boratto album), 2011
• III (Bosse-de-Nage album), 2012
• III (Chad Brock album), 2001
• 3 (Buffalo Killers album), 2011
• 3 (The Butchies album), 2001
• Three (The John Butler Trio album), 2001
• 3 (Calogero album), 2004
• Chicago III, by Chicago, 1971
• Three (Charlotte Church EP), 2013
• III (Crystal Castles album), 2012
• , by Cypress Hill, 1995
• , by Danzig, 1992
• III, by Demons & Wizards, 2020
• III (Download album), 1997
• III (Espers album), 2009
• III (Eths album), 2012
• III (Family Force 5 album), 2011
• 3, by Final, 2006
• 3 (FireHouse album), 1995
• Focus 3, by Focus, 1972
• III (Foster the People EP), 2017
• Three (Four Tet album), 2024
• III (Fuzz album), 2020
• Three (Gloriana album), 2015
• III (Haloo Helsinki! album), 2011
• III (Hillsong Young & Free album), 2018
• Three, by Honey, 2001
• 3 (honeyhoney album), 2015
• 3 (Ich Troje album), 1999
• 3 (Indochine album), 1985
• Three (Bob James album), 1976
• III (JoJo EP), 2015
• BK3 (album) by Bruce Kulick, 2010
• Led Zeppelin III, by Led Zeppelin, 1970
• III (The Lumineers album), 2019
• III (Makthaverskan album), 2017
• III, by Masked Intruder, 2019
• 3 (Mastedon album), 2009
• III (Maylene and the Sons of Disaster album), 2009
• iii, by Milosh, 2008
• III (Moderat album), 2016
• III (Moistboyz album), 2002
• III (Stanton Moore album), 2006
• III, by Mt. Egypt, 2009
• III (Joe Nichols album), 2005
• 3 (Netsky album), 2009 (also stylised III)
• 3 (Ngaiire album), 2021
• Three (Nine Days album), 1998
• 3 (Nouvelle Vague album), 2009
• III (Orbital EP), 1991
• 3, by Peace Love & Pitbulls, 1997
• Three (Ph.D. album), 2009
• Three (Phantogram album), 2016
• Three (Joel Plaskett album), 2009
• 3 (Pole album), 2000
• 3rd (The Rasmus EP), 1996
• 3 (soundtrack), by Anirudh Ravichander, from the 2012 Tamil film
• Phase Three (album), by Riverdales, 2003
• III (Sahg album), 2010
• Santana (1971 album), Santana, 1971 (often referred to as III)
• 3 (Alejandro Sanz album), 1995
• 1. 3 (The Script album)
  , 2012
• Sebadoh III, by Sebadoh, 1991
• 1. 3 (Shakespears Sister album)
  , 2004
• III (Shiny Toy Guns album), 2012
• III (Bob Sinclar album), 2003
• 3's, by Smile Empty Soul, 2012
• iii (Miike Snow album), 2016
• 3 (Soulfly album), 2002
• III (S.O.S. Band album), 1982
• Threes (album), by Sparta, 2006
• 1. 3 (Suburban Kids with Biblical Names album)
  , 2005
• Three (Sugababes album), 2003
• III (Take That album), 2014
• 3 (Tricot album), 2017
• Three (Tubeless Hearts album), 1994
• 3 (Typical Cats album), 2012
• Three (U2 EP), 1979
• Van Halen III, by Van Halen, 1998
• 3 (Violent Femmes album), 1989
• III, by Xerath, 2014
• III, by Siam Shade, 1996

Songs

• "3" (Britney Spears song), 2009
• "3" (Disturbed song), 2011
• "3", a song by Flume from the album Skin, 2016
• "3", a song by Scott Storch, 2021
• "3", a song by Ultravox from the B-side of "Same Old Story", 1986
• "3" (I Can't Believe It's Not Rock song), a 2000 song by The Dissociatives
• ".3", a song by Porcupine Tree from the album In Absentia, 2002
• "III", by Foster the People from Sacred Hearts Club, 2017
• "Tres" (song) (English: 'Three'), a 2008 song by Juanes
• "Three", a song by Massive Attack from the album Protection, 1994
• "Three", a song by Future and Young Thug from the mixtape Super Slimey, 2017
• "Three", a song by Lily Allen from the album No Shame, 2018
• "Three", a 1969 song by Jimmy Newman
• "Three", a 1969 song by Strawberry Alarm Clock
• "Song 3", a song by Robbie Williams from the album Escapology, 2002
• "Song Three", a song from the Mahagonny-Songspiel
• "Three", a song by Karma to Burn from the album Wild, Wonderful Purgatory, 1999

Other music

• E (video), stylized Ǝ, video album by Eminem
• 3 Songs (disambiguation)
• 3 EPs, a 1994 Tall Dwarfs EP
• III Records, a Japanese record label
• The Three E.P.'s, a 1998 The Beta Band album

Science and technology

• 3, the resin identification code for polyvinyw3wl chloride
• 3, the DVD region code for many East Asian countries (except for Japan and China)
• Group 3 element, often written as IIIw
• A superscript 3 (³) is used to represent the cubing of a number
• Schläfli symbol for an equilateral triangle
• Giant star (III), in the Yerkes spectral classification
• 3 Juno, an asteroid in the asteroid belt

Transportation

Automobiles

• BMW 3 Series, a German compact luxury car
• Chery Arrizo 3, a Chinese subcompact sedan
• Chery Tiggo 3, a Chinese compact SUV
• Lynk & Co 03, a Chinese subcompact crossover
• Mazda3, a Japanese compact sedan
• MG 3, a British-Chinese subcompact hatchback
• Peugeot Type 3, a French steam-powered car
• Qoros 3, a Chinese compact car
• Tesla Model 3, an American compact electric sedan
• Volkswagen Type 3, a German compact car

Roads and routes

• 3 (New York City Subway service), a service of the New York City Subway
• List of highways numbered 3

Other uses

• 3, Triq ix-Xatt, a nineteenth-century building in Marsaskala, Malta
• Company (musical), a musical originally titled Threes
• The small forward position in basketball, also called the 3
• Three, a personality type of the Enneagram of Personality typology
• "The Three", from the second book of Samuel in the Old Testament; see David's Mighty Warriors
• Three-point field goal, a long shot in basketball
• Threes, a game on the iPhone

Similar glyphs

• Open-mid central unrounded vowel, ɜ, of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), used in Cherokee and some English pronunciation
• Ezh (letter), Ʒ, a symbol for dram
  • Lowercase ezh, ʒ, representing the Voiced palato-alveolar sibilant of the IPA, used in several African languages
• Dram (unit) (ℨ) and Gothic font letter Z
• Yogh or Ȝ, letter used in Middle English and Middle Scots
• Gyfu or Gar (rune) Anglo Saxon runes transliterated as ȝ
• Ze (Cyrillic) or З, eleventh letter of Kazakh, tenth letter of Ukrainian, Dungan, ninth letter of Russian, Belarusian, Uzbek, Serbo-Croatian, Mongolian, eighth letter of Bulgarian and Kyrgyz alphabets; and Cyrillic numeral 7
• E (Cyrillic) or Э, fortieth letter of Kazakh, thirty-fifth letter of Dungan, thirty-third letter of Mongolian, thirty-first letter of Russian, thirtieth letter of Belarusian, twenty-eighth letter of Kyrgyz, and twenty-seventh letter of Uzbek alphabets
• Abkhazian Dze or Ӡ, nineteenth letter of Abkhazian Cyrillic script alphabet
• Ro (kana) or ろ, in hiragana Japanese script
• ③, one of the Enclosed Alphanumerics
• Da̰ dwé or ဒ, nineteenth letter of Burmese alphabet
• Vin or ვ, sixth letter of Georgian alphabet and Georgian numeral 6
• Kan or კ, eleventh letter of Georgian alphabet and Georgian numeral 20
• Par or პ, seventeenth letter of Georgian alphabet and Georgian numeral 80
• Vie or ჳ, obsolete twenty-second letter of Georgian alphabet
• Hi or Յ, twenty-first letter of Armenian alphabet and Armenian numeral 300
• ౩, Telugu alphabet numeral 3
• ૩, Gujarati alphabet numeral 3
• ३, Devanagari numeral 3
• ੩, Gurmukhī alphabet numeral 3
• ༣, Tibetan alphabet numeral 3
• Ꜣ, used to transcribe the Ancient Egyptian 'aleph' phoneme; see Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian

See also

• 03 (disambiguation)
• 3%, a 2016 Brazilian dystopian thriller series
• 3% (group), an Australian rap group
• Class 3 (disambiguation)
• III (disambiguation)
• Lithium (atomic number), a chemical element
• Model 3 (disambiguation)
• Number Three (disambiguation)
• Samsung Galaxy 3, a smartphone
• Third (disambiguation)
• The Three (disambiguation)
• Three Percenters, a far-right American paramilitary group advocating gun rights and resisting government
• Three's Company, 1970s British TV series
• Type III (disambiguation)