3 (disambiguation)

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3 is a number, numeral, and glyph.

3, three, or III may also refer to:

• <3 or the heart symbol, which cannot be redirected because of technical limitations.
• AD 3, the third year of the AD era
• 3 BC, the third year before the AD era
• The month of March
• An approximation of pi to the nearest integer
• An approximation of e to the nearest integer

Books

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

Companies

• Hutchison 3G, Three, or 3, mobile phone networks in Europe, Australia, and Asia

Film

• Three (1965 film), a Yugoslavian film by Aleksandar Petrović
• Three (1969 film), starring Charlotte Rampling and Sam Waterston
• 3 (1971 film), a Norwegian film by Nicole Macé
• Three (2002 film), an Asian horror movie collaboration
• 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story, a 2004 television movie
• Survival Island or Three, a 2006 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 (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

Television

• Three (TV series), a 1998 American series
• 3 (TV series), a 2012 CBS reality television series
• "3" (The X-Files), a 1994 episode
• 3%, a 2016 Brazilian dystopian thriller series
• 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story, a 2004 television movie
• Three's Company, 1970's TV series
• BBC Three, a British television channel
• Channel 3, television channel traditionally associated with ITV (TV network) in the UK
• Three (New Zealand), 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
• The tritone, an interval that splits the octave into three equal spaces
• 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
• Three (band), a post hardcore band signed to Dischord Records
• 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 (BadBadNotGood album), 2014
• III, by Dany Bédar, 2008
• 3 (Bo Bice album), 2010
• Three (The Black Heart Procession album), 2000
• Black Widow III, an album by Black Widow (band), 1972
• III (Gui Boratto album), 2011
• 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
• Danzig III: How the Gods Kill, by Danzig, 1992
• III (Download album), 1997
• Three (End of Everything album), 2006
• 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 (Gloriana album), 2015
• III (Haloo Helsinki! album), 2011
• Three, by Honey, 2001
• 3 (HoneyHoney album), 2015
• 3 (Ich Troje album), 1999
• 3 (Indochine album), 1985
• Three (Bob James album), 1976
• BK3 (album) by Bruce Kulick, 2010
• Led Zeppelin III, by Led Zeppelin, 1970
• 3 (Mastedon album), 2009
• III (Maylene and the Sons of Disaster album), 2009
• iii (Miike Snow album), 2016
• III (Moistboyz album), 2002
• III (Stanton Moore album), 2006
• III (Mt. Egypt album), 2009
• III (Joe Nichols album), 2005
• 3 (Netsky album), 2009 (also stylised III)
• 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
• Phase Three, by Riverdales, 2003
• Santana (1971 album), Santana, 1971 (often referred to as III)
• 3 (Alejandro Sanz album), 1995
• #3 (The Script album), 2012
• Sebadoh III, by Sebadoh, 1991
• #3 (Shakespears Sister album), 2004
• III (Shiny Toy Guns album), 2012
• III (Bob Sinclar album), 2003
• 3 (Smack EP), 2008
• 3's, by Smile Empty Soul, 2012
• 3 (Soulfly album), 2002
• III (S.O.S. Band album), 1982
• Threes (album), by Sparta, 2006
• #3 (Suburban Kids with Biblical Names album), 2005
• Three (Sugababes album), 2003
• III (Take That album), 2014
• Billy Talent III, by Billy Talent, 2009
• 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

Songs

• "3" (Britney Spears song), 2009
• "3", a song by Disturbed from their 2011 album The Lost Children
• "3", a 1986 song by Ultravox used as B-side of "Same Old Story", and re-released on U-Vox
• Song Three, a song from the Mahagonny-Songspiel
• Song 3, a song from the 2002 Robbie Williams album Escapology (album)
• "Three", a song by Strawberry Alarm Clock
• "Three", a song by Jimmy Newman
• "Three", a song by Massive Attack from the 1994 album Protection
• "Three", a song by The Wedding Present, from Hit Parade 1
• "Track Three", a 1984 Scott Walker song
• "Tres" (song), aka "3", a 2008 song by Juanes
• "The Magic Number", a song by De La Soul, sometimes erroneously called "The Three Song", from their album 3 Feet High and Rising
• "3", a song by Flume from the album, Skin
• ".3", a song by Porcupine Tree from the album, In Absentia

Other

• 3 Songs (disambiguation)
• 3 EPs, a 1994 Tall Dwarfs EP
• The Three E.P.'s, a 1998 The Beta Band album

Technology

• 3, polyvinyl chloride's resin identification code used in recycling
• DVD region code 3, used for many East Asian countries (except for Japan (Region 2) and China (Region 6))

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
• ℨ, a symbol for dram (unit) 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
• 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

Other uses

• 3 (New York City Subway service), a service of the New York City Subway
• Three, a personality type of the Enneagram of Personality typology
• Three-point field goal, a long shot in basketball
• Mazda3, a compact car
• BMW 3 Series
• MG 3
• Qoros 3
• Group 3 element, often written as III
• ③, see enclosed alphanumerics
• Threes (game), a game on the iPhone
• Threes, original title of the musical Company
• Samsung Galaxy 3, or i5800, an Android-powered smartphone by Samsung Electronics, released in 2010
• Model 3 (disambiguation)
• Type 3 (disambiguation)
• Class 3 (disambiguation)

See also

• 03 (disambiguation)
• III (disambiguation)
• Number Three (disambiguation)
• Third (disambiguation)
• List of highways numbered 3