Hypertext Webster Gateway: "subscript"
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) 1.7 (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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