subscript
/ˈsʌbskɹɪpt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "If your presentation covers chemistry or some other scientific field, you'll need to subscript and superscript characters (think H2O)."
- "Avoid subscripting arrays or hashes within loops."
Etymology
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.