noun
1. : an off side fielding position in cricket usually near the boundary and roughly in line with third slip and the striker ; also : a player fielding in this position — see cricket illustration
2.
[translation of Greek tritos anthrōpos ]
: a logical paradox in which the attempt to pass from one thing to another or to relate one conception to another reveals the necessity of a third and intervening thing or conception and hence leads to an infinite regress