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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: looking for the right word
Message-ID: <3790@phri.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 89 17:32:37 GMT
Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY
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	I'm at a loss for a word.  The generalization of first, second,
third, ... is nth.  The generalization of primary, secondary, tertiary, ...
is n-ary.  But, what is the generalization of mononucleotide, dinucleotide,
trinucleotide, tertranucleotide, ....?  N-nucleotide doesn't sound right,
nor does nmer, which is more the generalizaion of monomer, dimer, trimer,
etc.  Any suggestions?
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