subscript
Written underneath.
Adjective
- Written underneath.
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub-der. English sub- Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-? Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ- Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti Proto-Italic *skreiβō Latin scrībō Latin scrīptum Old French escritbor. Middle English scrit English script English subscript From sub- + script.
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- A type of lettering form written lower than the things around it.
- In chemical formulas the number of atoms in a molecule is written as a subscript, so we write H₂O for water which has two atoms of hydrogen for each one of oxygen.
- An index into an array or hash.
- If the container is subscriptable and you remember the position where a particular piece of data was stored, you can use the subscript to efficiently retrieve the data. - 2012, Robert Robson, Using the STL: The C++...
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- To provide with a subscript.
- As in the chapters on the synchronous model, we use the convention of subscripting a variable by the index of the process at which the variable resides. - 1996, Nancy A. Lynch, Distributed Algorithms, Elsevier, page 210:
- The elements of these matrices are subscripted with a row–column index, that is, with two integers that give the row and column position in the array. - 2011, William M. Davis (original author Cifford E. Dykstra),...
- To convert to a subscript form.
- If your presentation covers chemistry or some other scientific field, you'll need to subscript and superscript characters (think H2O). - 2007, Emily A. Vander Veer, PowerPoint 2007: The Missing Manual:
- To access (an array element) by its index.
- Avoid subscripting arrays or hashes within loops. - 2005, Damian Conway, Perl Best Practices: