subscript
IPA: sʌbskrˈɪpt
noun
- (typography) A type of lettering form written lower than the things around it.
- (programming) An index into an array or hash.
verb
- (mathematics, sciences, typography, transitive, of a variable) To provide with a subscript.
- (mathematics, sciences, typography, transitive, of a text) To convert to a subscript form.
- (programming, transitive) To access (an array element) by its index.
adjective
- Written underneath.
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Examples of "subscript" in Sentences
- I paid for the subscription.
- It also exploits the locality of the subscriptions.
- That's worth the price of the subscription right there.
- The second source is the membership annual subscriptions.
- The subscription to The Canadian Business Journal is free.
- He was the subscription manager for the skateboard magazine.
- The cost of the service is subscription to a merchant account.
- The cost of the memorial was met by the Voluntary Subscription Fund.
- The comma in the subscript of the last term indicates differentiation.
- The cost of the subscription is proportional to the number of selected zones.
- There is a new subscript and superscript tool that can be used in writing chemical compounds and mathematics equations.
- All that is missing for notation is the subscript S on the integration sign to designate surface integral; and this is not particularly unusual or exceptional.
- I will copy text * within a single document* (e.g., symbols with subscripts) and when I paste it within the same document, the formatting (of the subscript) is lost.
- The new equation editor, subscript, and superscript tools make it possible for math and science teachers and their students to use Google Docs for more of their document creations.
- Speaking of R-si, I was amused to learn in my mechanical engineering lecture the other day that "Rsys" sys is a subscript is the numerical expression of the reliability of a system.
- There's NO notation difference from the Wolfram reference, apart from using "x" rather than "a" as the integration variable to identify a point on the surface, and omitting the subscript "S" on the integration sign.
- It's simply that Arthur's notation is standard and identical in every respect to what Wolfram does -- excepting only the omission of the subscript S on the integral sign to help underline that it is a surface integral.
- Hansen and Quinn give us eight distinct patterns, such as “alpha followed by an epsilon becomes long alpha, alpha followed by epsilon iota becomes long alpha with an iota subscript,” and so on, for eight impossible to memorize (at least for me) rules.