subscript

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Various other particulars interesting to those who study the Greek text in the original, as those relating to the accents, the smooth and rough breathing, and the iota subscript are here omitted 7.

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  1. noun A distinguishing character or symbol written directly beneath or next to and slightly below a letter or number.
  2. adjective Written beneath.

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  • Under the name was a subscript: British Army, Retired . —  The Hard Way by Lee Child
  • Do you know how to subscript or superscript for twitter? —  TheNextWeb.com
  • Patrick: we don't want to do subscripting that much anyway if I assign Whatever to a scalar and use that within a subscript, does it work as a term? played with having the parser detect a Whatever it set a flag saying "You have to thunk this." that doesn't help if it's buried —  Planet Perl
  • One step sets a global field from the scriptname; the other runs a universal subscript which sends the command to iRed. —  MacUpdate - Mac OS X
  • The previous example could have been written using the MB_MESSAGE subscript (Listing 24). —  LXer Linux News
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  1. From Latin subscrīptus, past participle of subscrībere, to subscribe; see subscribe.

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  1. = French souscrit = Spanish suscrito = Italian soscritto, from Latin subscriptus, past participle of subscribere, write underneath or below: see subscribe.
 

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/ˈsəbskrɪpt/
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