Category:Subscript

Sub"script, a. Etym: [l. subscriptus, p.p. See subscribe.]

Defn: written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (see under Iota.) Specifically (math.), said of marks, figures, or letters (suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other letters To distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols xa, an, y2. See Suffix, n., 2, and subindex.

Subscript Sub"script, n.

Defn: anything written below. Bentley.