Answer to Puzzle Contest (from the winner):
"DIMENSION
DIME represents 10. Remove the middle letter 'N' and the first 3 letters, and
read backwards and you have NOISE, a kind of sound. Space is usually in 3
dimensions. Others include Time, the 'Fourth Dimension', as a dimension of
space. There is also the 5th Dimension, a 60's music group."
I went ahead and accepted DIMENSIONS as well, since the "there are 3 of me, 4 if you include time" part really only works in the plural. This problem was way too easy for you puzzle nuts, as you'll see from the statistics below.
Winner: gorky
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