subscript
Speech parts
1. subscript - Noun
2. subscript - Adjective
3. subscript - Verb
Meaning
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.
Anything written below.
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Alternatively, some authors denote hexadecimal values using a suffix or subscript.
If the transformation matrix of an index is the basis transformation itself, then the index is called covariant and is denoted with a lower index (subscript).
Capital letters used in the subscript indicate that h FE refers to a direct current circuit.
If the third quark is heavy, its identity is given by a subscript.
In these three, sequence types (C arrays, Java arrays and lists, and Lisp lists and vectors) are indexed beginning with the zero subscript.
In this context, the opening bracket is often pronounced as "sub", indicating a subscript.