subscript

Example Sentences

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If a number is written in a base other than ten, the base is often indicated as a subscript.

From Scientific American

Along the way, his anecdotes form a fascinating subscript.

From Nature

Later, for no special reason, the fashion became to render the number as subscript: H2O.

From Literature

A subscript running across the screen morphed from “Government Medicine Bullies” to “FDA Regulations Can Kill.”

From BusinessWeek

The word monotonic means, according to Merriam-Webster Online, “having the property either of never increasing or of never decreasing as the values of the independent variable or the subscripts of the terms increase.”

From Forbes