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Date "NTH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Crosswords: NTH |
| Specialty definitions using "NTH": Busy Beaver ♦ cyclic check ♦ difference equation ♦ optimal stopping rule ♦ quasi-random sampling ♦ steady state deviation of the nth order. (references) |
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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Nth or ~~~nth plus One, Nth plus One, in University slang, means to the utmost degree. Thus, Cut to the nth means wholly unnoticed by a friend. The expression is taken from the index of a mathematical formula, where n stands for any number, and n + 1, one more than any number. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Lyrics | Move us to the nth hoop (Groove Is in the Heart; performing artist: Deee-Lite) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Nth Commandment (1923) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Cascades on the nth. fork of the Blackwater. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "NTH" is generally used as an ordinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NTH" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Ordinal Number | 100% | 34 | 59,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "NTH": for the nth time ♦ nth order harmonic distortion ♦ nth powers ♦ nth root ♦ second Nth generation image ♦ steady state deviation of the nth order ♦ to the nth degree. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "NTH": nth-order. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nth degree | 29 |
generation nth | 23 |
nth | 14 |
nth orbit | 7 |
consultant nth | 5 |
nth power | 5 |
nth root | 3 |
let mother nth take tank | 3 |
nth term | 2 |
finding nth term | 2 |
degree mobility nth | 2 |
man nth | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "NTH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i n-të. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | енти. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 第n, 次 (next, number, order, second, sequence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stationær afvigelse af n'te orden (steady state deviation of the nth order), mikrobillede af 2.generation (second Nth generation image). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | blijvende afwijking van de ne orde (steady state deviation of the nth order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | درمرحله چند, درمرتبه بیشمار. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | n:nnen kertaluvun pysyvä poikkeama (steady state deviation of the nth order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | autocorrelation d'ordre n (nth-order autocorrelation), affaiblissement de distorsion harmonique d'ordre n (nth order harmonic distortion), écart permanent du nième ordre (steady state deviation of the nth order). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | x-te (umpteenth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νύοστοσ, απείρωσ μέγασ, απείρωσ μικρόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | x-edszer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ennesimo (umpteenth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | nthay erro de regime permanente de ordem n (steady state deviation of the nth order), autocorrelaçao de ordem n (nth-order autocorrelation). (various references) энный (umpteenth). (various references) enti. (various references) imagen de segunda generación (second Nth generation image), desviación permanente de orden n (steady state deviation of the nth order), autocorrelación de orden n (nth-order autocorrelation). (various references) n-te. (various references) ใช้เน้นเมื่อกล่าวว่าเป็นสิ่งสุ"ท้าย. (various references) n'inci, son (afterbirth, bedrock, close, conclusion, conclusive, curtains, definitive, denouement, end, ending, expiration, expiry, extremity, farewell, fate, final, finis, finish, finishing, full, full stop, issue, kiss off, last, late, latest, latter, Omega, outcome, quietus, recent, result, ruination, secundine, sunset, supreme, tail end, terminal, termination, ultimate, upshot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "NTH": absinth, amaranth, billionth, coelacanth, colocynth, dozenth, eighteenth, eleventh, fifteenth, fourteenth, greenth, helminth, hyacinth, hydranth, jacinth, labyrinth, midmonth, millionth, month, nineteenth, ninth, perianth, platyhelminth, plinth, quadrillionth, quintillionth, seventeenth, seventh, sixteenth, synth, tenth, terebinth, thirteenth, tragacanth, trillionth, twelvemonth, umpteenth, umteenth, zillionth. (additional references) | |
Words containing "NTH": absinthe, absinthes, absinths, acanthi, acanthocephalan, acanthocephalans, acanthus, acanthuses, agapanthus, agapanthuses, ailanthus, ailanthuses, amaranthine, amaranths, anthelia, anthelices, anthelion, anthelions, anthelix, anthelixes, anthelmintic, anthelmintics, anthem, anthemed, anthemia, antheming, anthemion, anthems, anther, antheral, antherid, antheridia, antheridial, antheridium, antherids, anthers, antheses, anthesis, anthill, anthills, anthocyan, anthocyanin, anthocyanins, anthocyans, anthodia, anthodium, anthoid, anthological, anthologies, anthologist, anthologists. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "NTH" (pronounced e"nth) |
| 3 | e" n th | tenth. |
| 2 | -n th | Amaranth, billionth, coelacanth, eighteenth, eleventh, fifteenth, fourteenth, helminth, Hyacinth, jacinth, jacinthe, labyrinth, millionth, month, nineteenth, ninth, plinth, seventeenth, seventh, sixteenth, thirteenth, umpteenth. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "h-n-t" | |
+1 letter: hant, hent, hint, hunt, than, then, thin. | |
+2 letters: chant, hants, haunt, hents, hints, hunts, month, natch, neath, night, ninth, north, notch, shent, shunt, snath, synth, tench, tenth, thane, thank, thegn, thein, thens, thine, thing, think, thins, thong, thorn, thunk, unhat. | |
+3 letters: anthem, anther, canthi, chants, chanty, chaunt, chints, chintz, chitin, chiton, ethane, ethene, ethion, ethnic, ethnos, ethyne, hanted, hantle, hapten, hasten, hating, hatpin, haunts, henbit, hented, hetman, hinted, hinter, hognut, honest, hornet, hunted, hunter, knight, length, months, naught, nautch, nether, nights, nighty, ninths, norths, nother, nought, photon, phyton, plinth, python, rhyton, shanti, shanty, shunts, snatch, snathe, snaths, snitch, stanch, stench, synths, tahini, tenths, thanes, thanks, thegns, theine, theins, thenal, thenar, thence, things, thinks, thinly, thongs, thorns, thorny, thoron, thrawn, throne, throng, thrown, thunks, tonish, trench, tuchun, typhon, unhats, unhurt, unshut, whiten, within, zenith. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 54 48 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. - .... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01010100 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N T H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0054 0048 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)485442 |
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