A severe burn that destroys skin and underlying tissue and exposes nerve endings.

(law) A derivative lawsuit brought by a defendant in an original lawsuit, claiming that another new party being brought in is responsible for or should share in the plaintiff's damages against the defendant.

(video games) A combat-themed video game of a kind with a perspective view, typically positioning the camera over the shoulder of the player.

(physics) Newton's observation that to every action (force applied) there is an equal and opposite reaction (equal force applied in the opposite direction)

A company that is contracted, by a bank etc., to conduct some part of a financial transaction process; especially a company that provides software or hardware for such a process

plural of third-class citizen

(programming, languages) An entity of which the value can neither be passed as a parameter, nor be returned from a function, nor assigned to a variable. (Used by Raphael Finkel, the first-class object does not need to have run-time constructability according to his definition.)

plural of third-class value

(programming, languages) Synonym of third-class object

plural of third-class entity