subscript

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.

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

Along the way, his anecdotes form a fascinating subscript.

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

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