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Subscript

Sub′script

,
Adj.
[L.
subscriptus
, p. p. See
Subscribe
.]
Written below or underneath;
as, iota
subscript
. (See under
Iota
.) Specifically
(Math.)
, said of marks, figures, or letters (suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other letters to distinguish them;
as, a, n, 2, in the symbols
X
a
,
A
n
,
Y
2
. See
Suffix
,
Noun.
, 2, and
Subindex
.

Sub′script

,
Noun.
Anything written below.
Bentley.

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subscript

subscript

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Noun

subscript ‎(plural subscripts)

  1. (printing) A type of lettering form written lower than the things around it.
    In chemical formulas the number of atoms in a molecule is written as a subscript, so we write H2O for water which has two atoms of hydrogen for each one of oxygen.
  2. (computing) A numerical index into an array.

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