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Definition of Subscript

1. Adjective. Written or printed below and to one side of another character.

2. Noun. A character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character.

Definition of Subscript

1. a. 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.

2. n. Anything written below.

Definition of Subscript

1. Noun. (printing) A type of lettering form written lower than the things around it. ¹

2. Noun. (computing) A numerical index into an array. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Subscript

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subscript

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subscribers subscribership subscriberships subscribes subscribing subscript (current term) subscripted subscription subscription right subscription warrant

subscriptions subscriptive subscripts subsea subsecive subsecretaries subsecretary subsect subsection subsections

Literary usage of Subscript

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Christian Observer (1811)
"Second subscript : " Here endeth the writing of the fourteen Epistles of the ... subscript : " Here ends the catholic Epistle of James, a chief apostle, ..."

2. The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Ed. Under the Authority of the by Ezra Stiles (1901)
"... Talbot C" subscript 571. 15. Other pub. funds in Talbot C" agreed to be engrafted \ valued at ) & consolidated with the funds of the College, ..."

3. Engineering Contracts and Specifications: Including a Brief Synopsis of the by John Butler Johnson (1904)
"... KEY TO subscript INITIALS. The following gentlemen have kindly furnished the author copies of their specifications from which he has freely quoted in ..."

4. Engineering Contracts and Specifications: Including a Brief Synopsis of the by John Butler Johnson (1904)
"... KEY TO subscript INITIALS. The following gentlemen have kindly furnished the author copies of their specifications from which he has freely quoted in ..."

5. Engineering Contracts and Specifications: Including a Brief Synopsis of the ...by John Butler Johnson by John Butler Johnson (1901)
"KEY TO subscript INITIALS. The following gentlemen have kindly furnished the author copies of their specifications from which he has freely quoted in parts ..."

6. Electricity and Magnetism for Engineers by Harold Pender (1919)
"Double subscript Notation. — When the current flowing through a conductor from any point 1 to any point 2 has at any particular instant the value I sin ut ..."

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