SUBSCRIPT

subscript, inferior

(adjective) written or printed below and to one side of another character

subscript, inferior

(noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

subscript (plural subscripts)

(typography) A type of lettering form written lower than the things around it.

(computing) A numerical index into an array.

Antonyms

• superscript

Verb

subscript (third-person singular simple present subscripts, present participle subscripting, simple past and past participle subscripted)

(mathematics, science, typography, transitive, of a variable) To provide with a subscript.

(mathematics, science, typography, transitive, of a text) To convert to a subscript form.

Antonyms

• superscript

Adjective

subscript (not comparable)

Written underneath.

Source: Wiktionary


Sub"script, a. Etym: [L. subscriptus, p.p. See Subscribe.]

Definition: 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 Xa, An, Y2. See Suffix, n., 2, and Subindex.

Sub"script, n.

Definition: Anything written below. Bentley.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

17 January 2025

OBSERVE

(verb) conform one’s action or practice to; “keep appointments”; “she never keeps her promises”; “We kept to the original conditions of the contract”


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