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Subscript

adjective

Written or printed below and to one side of another character. Synonym: inferior.

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... was produced from Analog August 1962. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors have been corrected without note. Subscript characters are shown ...

— The Bramble Bush • Gordon Randall Garrett

... it, not to speak of the possible influence of the Greek accents in the Hellenic number system. When we consider, however, that the dot is found for zero in the Bakh[s.][a]l[i] manuscript,[257] and that it was used in subscript form in the Kit[a]b al-Fihrist[258] in the tenth century, and as late as the sixteenth century,[259] although in this case probably under Arabic influence, we are forced to believe that this form may also have been of ...

— The Hindu-Arabic Numerals • David Eugene Smith

Words linked to "Subscript" : printing process, superscript, character, inferior, grapheme, printing, adscript, graphic symbol