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nth selection

Japanese translation: n

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English term or phrase:nth selection
Japanese translation:n
Entered by: conejo

09:06 Oct 5, 2004
English to Japanese translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - IT (Information Technology)
English term or phrase: nth selection
This is in a sales document from a mailing/printing company.

No sentence, just given in a list under "data processing," with other things like postal presorting, de-dupe, mail/merge, address correction/standardization, data conversion, data entry, CASS, NCOA, programming, and report generation.
conejo
United States
Local time: 23:45
n番目の選択
Explanation:
nth: n番目
selection: 選択、取得
So "nth selection" is 「n番目の(or を)選択」「n番目の(or を)取得」.
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Hiromi Kobayashi
Japan
Local time: 13:45
Grading comment
Thanks. I couldn't really verify either (of the entire phrases) "n番目の選択" or "n次の選択" on Google, but I ended up using n次の選択. Thanks.
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3 +1n番目の選択
Hiromi Kobayashi


  

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n番目の選択


Explanation:
nth: n番目
selection: 選択、取得
So "nth selection" is 「n番目の(or を)選択」「n番目の(or を)取得」.



    Reference: http://pitecan.com/OpenPOBox/doc/api.html
Hiromi Kobayashi
Japan
Local time: 13:45
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thanks. I couldn't really verify either (of the entire phrases) "n番目の選択" or "n次の選択" on Google, but I ended up using n次の選択. Thanks.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Kurt Hammond: Could n次 be used? or is that mathematical?
12 hrs
  -> Yes, I also think n次 can be used.
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