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Like the 2 in B2
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subscript
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Word definitions for subscript in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context printing English) A type of lettering form written lower than the things around it. 2 (context computing English) A numerical index into an array.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1704, "that which is written underneath," from Latin subscriptus , past participle of subscribere "write underneath" (see subscribe ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...
Usage examples of subscript.
Impossible to think of herself with a name like that and yet names are the animal badges we wear, given not only for practical necessity but to serve as a subscript to the inner person, a primitive index of the soul, and how could she be certain, sibylline instincts or not, that the name the novelist had given her would not in the end find its rightful soul to wear.
Finally, with the academic air of someone discussing the historical development of the iota subscript, she spoke.
Let us borrow a device from the semanticists and examine his triad with subscripts attached for maximum clarity.
The subscripted one error is negligible, and of the two words the program didn’t recognize, it got one correct.
Had been the Saladin, Gerswin realized as the light flared red and white and vanished, to be replaced with a subscripted line at the bottom of the screen.
The next six letters with their subscripts represent fractions, with each subscript standing for a crucial word or concept.
As witness the wilderness of coda, addenda, and subscripts the report had accumulated, meant to vilify House Tregesser, whose main crime was that it refused to be gobbled by the bureaucratic machine.
They have used bold-faced letters, Gothic-type letters, Greek letters, both capital and small, subscripts, superscripts, asterisks, even Hebrew letters.