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
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
Rows of equations spilling over with subscripts and inequality signs might induce a paralyzing Algebra I flashback.
From Washington Post
What looks like an intuitive depiction about the possibility of ‘time-travel’ actually contains complicated maneuvering of constants and variables with superscript and subscript indices, as well as of manifold geometry.
From Scientific American
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
