Let R a commutative ring with identity and M be a unitary R-module. In this paper, we investigate some properties of n-absorbing submodules of M as a generalization of 2-absorbing submodules. We also define the classical n-absorbing submodule, a proper submodule N of an R-module M is called a classical n-absorbing submodule if whenever a 1 a 2 . . . a n+1 m ∈ N for a 1 , a 2 , . . . , a n+1 ∈ R and m ∈ M, there are n of a i 's whose product with m is in N . Furthermore, we give some characterizations of n-absorbing and classical n-absorbing submodules under some conditions.
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