Sub"script , n. Anything written below. Bentley.
Sub"script (?), a. [L. subscriptus, p. p. See Subscribe.]
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.
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