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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Subscript  \Sub"script\,  a.  [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},  n.,  2,  and 
  {Subindex}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Subscript  \Sub"script\,  n. 
  Anything  written  below.  --Bentley. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  subscript 
  adj  :  (printing)  written  or  printed  below  and  to  one  side  of 
  another  character  [syn:  {inferior}]  [ant:  {adscript},  {superscript}] 
  n  :  a  character  or  symbol  set  or  printed  or  written  beneath  or 
  slightly  below  and  to  the  side  of  another  character  [syn: 
  {inferior}]  [ant:  {superscript}] 




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