What is "nth"

Usage examples of "nth".

This does not prevent him from letting himself be trapped by emotion to the nth power when faced with the sight of all the parades of history: one day for the Russians, another against them, one day for the Jews, another against them, and so on, in a seemingly endless repetition, as long as progress and the march continue.

This was as though every poignant experience of her past had been rolled into one, raised to the nth power, and stabbed relentlessly into the deepest, tenderest, most sensitive centers of her being.

Dauntless and her crew were thrown out of a hyper-spatial tube and into that highly enigmatic Nth space, La Verne Thorndyke had been Chief Technician.

They would stay there until the atomic blasts went into action and it became clear that the Arisians would need no help in navigating those tremendous globes through Nth space to the points at which two hyper-spatial tubes were soon to appear.

Kinnison could not reach Nth space, but it was no secret that Kit could.

It was one thing for her to be organized to the nth degree in her own life, but with a baby?

Brianne was shining in a pale yellow gown nth a matching ribbon holding back her hair.

Its importance, naturally of the greatest in the assembled popular mind, was enhanced--as mathematicians would say, to the nth power--by the gown of Alice.

The unnerving tension of expecting it every second made them erratic and nervous to the nth degree.

A strange, glistening thing streamlined to the nth degree, every spare corner rounded till the resistance was at the irreducible minimum.

With his tektite object he is able to sit in time and then whirl faster and faster until this very motion becomes a sort of nth dimension, as the mathematicians say.

If the aborigine could spin off into the nth dimension, maybe there was something to this star business after all.

The man was bedworthy in the nth degree but his resentment of her definitely put paid to any possible attraction.

The air-conditioning had been switched off, and a woman passenger trapped in an elevator between the 10th and nth floors became hysterical, possibly the victim of a minor sexual assaultthe restoration of light in due course revealed its crop of illicit liaisons flourishing in the benevolent conditions of total darkness like a voracious plant species.

Market regimes and neoliberalism survive off these private appropriations of second, third, and nth nature.