3 (disambiguation)

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: Трое, literally, "three"), a 1901 novel by Maksim Gorky

Brands

  • 3 (telecommunications), a global telecommunications brand
    • 3Arena (Dublin), indoor amphitheatre in Ireland operating with the "3" brand
    • 3Arena (Stockholm), stadium in Sweden 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
  • 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story, 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), an Indian Telugu-language film
  • Three: Love, Lies, Betrayal, a 2009 Indian Hindi-language film starring Aashish Chaudhary, Nausheen Ali Sardar and Akshay Kapoor
  • Three (2010 film), a German film also known as 3
  • Super (2010 Indian film), starring Upendra, officially known as 👌 (sometimes read as Three)
  • 3 (1996 film), an Italian film also known as Tre
  • 3 (2012 Indian film), an Indian Tamil-language 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
  • Dandupalya 3, or III, a 2018 Indian Kannada-language film starring Pooja Gandhi, third in the Dandupalya series
  • Three (2020 film), a 2020 film Kazakh-South Korean film
  • The Three (film), a 2020 Russian film
  • III (film), a 2022 Canadian film

Television

  • Channel 3 (disambiguation)
  • Three (TV series), a 1998 American series
  • 3 (TV series), a 2012 CBS reality television series
  • "3" (The X-Files), a 1994 episode
  • BBC Three, a British television channel.
  • Three (TV channel), a New Zealand television channel
  • Channel 3 HD (Thailand), a Thai 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

3

  • 3 (Alejandro Sanz album), 1995
  • 3, by Anirudh Ravichander, a soundtrack for the 2012 Tamil film of the same name
  • 3 (The Atomic Bitchwax album), 2005
  • 3 (Bo Bice album), 2010
  • 3 (Buffalo Killers album), 2011
  • 3 (The Butchies album), 2001
  • 3 (Calogero album), 2004
  • 3 (FireHouse album), 1995
  • 3 (honeyhoney album), 2015
  • 3 (Ich Troje album), 1999
  • 3 (Indochine album), 1985
  • 3 (Mastedon album), 2009
  • 3 (Murat Boz album), 2024
  • 3 (Netsky album), 2009 (also stylised III)
  • 3 (Ngaiire album), 2021
  • 3 (Nouvelle Vague album), 2009
  • 3 (Pole album), 2000
  • 3 (Tricot album), 2017
  • 3 (Typical Cats album), 2012
  • 3 (Soulfly album), 2002
  • 3 (Violent Femmes album), 1989
  • 3, by Final, 2006
  • 3, by Peace Love & Pitbulls, 1997
  • #3 (The Script album), 2012
  • #3 (Shakespears Sister album), 2004
  • #3 (Suburban Kids with Biblical Names album), 2005
  • 3 EPs, by Tall Dwarfs, 1994
  • 3's, by Smile Empty Soul, 2012
  • 3rd (The Rasmus EP), 1996
  • BK3 (album) by Bruce Kulick, 2010
  • Focus 3, by Focus, 1972

III

  • III (Bad Books album), 2019
  • III (BadBadNotGood album), 2014
  • III (Banks album), 2019
  • III (Gui Boratto album), 2011
  • III (Bosse-de-Nage album), 2012
  • III (Chad Brock album), 2001
  • III (Crystal Castles album), 2012
  • III (Download album), 1997
  • III (Espers album), 2009
  • III (Eths album), 2012
  • III (Family Force 5 album), 2011
  • III (Foster the People EP), 2017
  • III (Fuzz album), 2020
  • III (JoJo EP), 2015
  • III (Haloo Helsinki! album), 2011
  • III (Hillsong Young & Free album), 2018
  • III (The Lumineers album), 2019
  • III (Makthaverskan album), 2017
  • III (Maylene and the Sons of Disaster album), 2009
  • III (Moderat album), 2016
  • III (Moistboyz album), 2002
  • III (Stanton Moore album), 2006
  • III (Joe Nichols album), 2005
  • III (Orbital EP), 1991
  • III (Sahg album), 2010
  • III (Shiny Toy Guns album), 2012
  • III (Bob Sinclar album), 2003
  • iii (Miike Snow album), 2016
  • III (S.O.S. Band album), 1982
  • III (Take That album), 2014
  • III, by Dany Bédar, 2008
  • III, by Demons & Wizards, 2020
  • III, by Masked Intruder, 2019
  • iii, by Milosh, 2008
  • III, by Mt. Egypt, 2009
  • III, by Siam Shade, 1996
  • III, by Xerath, 2014
  • Billy Talent III, by Billy Talent, 2009
  • Chicago III, by Chicago, 1971
  • Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom, by Cypress Hill, 1995
  • Danzig III: How the Gods Kill, by Danzig, 1992
  • Led Zeppelin III, by Led Zeppelin, 1970
  • Santana (1971 album), Santana, 1971 (often referred to as III or Santana III)
  • Sebadoh III, by Sebadoh, 1991
  • Van Halen III, by Van Halen, 1998
  • Black Widow III, by Black Widow, 1972

Three

  • Three (The Black Heart Procession album), 2000
  • Three (Blue Man Group album), 2016
  • Three (The John Butler Trio album), 2001
  • Three (Charlotte Church EP), 2013
  • Three (Four Tet album), 2024
  • Three (Gloriana album), 2015
  • Three (Bob James album), 1976
  • Three (Nine Days album), 1998
  • Three (Ph.D. album), 2009
  • Three (Phantogram album), 2016
  • Three (Joel Plaskett album), 2009
  • Three (Sugababes album), 2003
  • Three (Tubeless Hearts album), 1994
  • Three (U2 EP), 1979
  • Three, by APB (band), 2007
  • Three, by Armageddon (Swedish band), 2002
  • Three, by Honey, 2001
  • Threes (album), by Sparta, 2006
  • Phase Three (album), by Riverdales, 2003

Songs

  • "3" (Britney Spears song), 2009
  • "3" (Disturbed song), 2011
  • "3", by The Dissociatives from I Can't Believe it's Not Rock, 2000
  • "3", by Flume from Skin, 2016
  • "3", by Scott Storch, 2021
  • "3", by Ultravox from the B-side of "Same Old Story", 1986
  • ".3", by Porcupine Tree from In Absentia, 2002
  • "Song 3", by Robbie Williams from Escapology, 2002
  • "III", by Foster the People from Sacred Hearts Club, 2017
  • "III", by Sleep Theory from Afterglow, 2025
  • "Tres" (song) (English: 'Three'), by Juanes from La Vida... Es un Ratico, 2008
  • "Three", by Future and Young Thug from Super Slimey, 2017
  • "Three", by Jimmy Newman, 1969
  • "Three", by Karma to Burn from Wild, Wonderful Purgatory, 1999
  • "Three", by Lily Allen from No Shame, 2018
  • "Three", by Massive Attack from Protection, 1994
  • "Three", by Strawberry Alarm Clock, 1969
  • "Song Three", a song from the Mahagonny-Songspiel

Other music

  • E (video), stylized Ǝ, video album by Eminem
  • 3 Songs (disambiguation)
  • The Three E.P.'s, a 1998 The Beta Band album

Science and technology

  • 3, the resin identification code for polyvinyl chloride
  • 3, the DVD region code for many East Asian countries (except for Japan and China)
  • Group 3 element, often written as III
  • 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
  • Haima 3, a Chinese compact car
  • JAC Yiwei 3, a Chinese hatchback
  • 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
  • Line 3 (disambiguation)

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
  • Big Three (disambiguation)
  • Channel 3 (disambiguation)
  • 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)