Modifies a noun

• degree: Children, quite simply, are being spoilt to the nth degree.

• root: I don't think you can ignore the nth root of R without causing problems.

• term: Moving on to Paper 6 of the GCSE, No 2 required the nth term of a sequence.

• word: Words can be deleted in a specific way, eg adjectives, conjunctions, or randomly ( every nth word ).

• time: Yours was a tired little rant, repeated for the nth time about me.

• dimension: V: requests that the nth dimension is selected for vectorization.