subscript
Noun
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Noun
subscript (plural subscripts)
- (typography) A type of lettering form written lower than the things around it.
- In chemical formulas the number of atoms in a molecule is written as a subscript, so we write H2O for water which has two atoms of hydrogen for each one of oxygen.
- (computing) A numerical index into an array.
- French: indice, lettre inférieure
- German: Subskript, Tiefstellung, tiefgestelltes Zeichen, tiefgestelltes Druckzeichen, tiefstehendes Zeichen
- Portuguese: subscrito
- Russian: ни́жний и́ндекс
- Spanish: subíndice
subscript (subscripts, present participle subscripting; past and past participle subscripted)
- (mathematics, science, typography, transitive, of a variable) To provide with a subscript.
- 1996, Nancy A. Lynch, Distributed Algorithms, Elsevier, page 210:
- As in the chapters on the synchronous model, we use the convention of subscripting a variable by the index of the process at which the variable resides.
- 2011, William M. Davis (original author Cifford E. Dykstra), Physical Chemistry: A Modern Introduction (Second Edition), CRC Press, page 424:
- The elements of these matrices are subscripted with a row–column index, that is, with two integers that give the row and column position in the array.
- 1996, Nancy A. Lynch, Distributed Algorithms, Elsevier, page 210:
- (mathematics, science, typography, transitive, of a text) To convert to a subscript form.
subscript (not comparable)
- Written underneath.
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