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subscript |
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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