subscript
Example Sentences
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He was scratching rapidly at the second page, his fingers blue with ink, while Henry proofread the first one, dashing in subscripts and aspirants with his fountain pen.
From Literature
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
