subscript
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Is subscript a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (typography) A type of lettering form written lower than the things around it.Examples: "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."
2. (programming) An index into an array or hash.Examples: "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."
verb (English)
1. (mathematics, sciences, typography, transitive, of a variable) To provide with a subscript.Examples: "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."transitive
2. (mathematics, sciences, typography, transitive, of a text) To convert to a subscript form.Examples: "If your presentation covers chemistry or some other scientific field, you'll need to subscript and superscript characters (think H2O)."transitive
3. (programming, transitive) To access (an array element) by its index.Examples: "Avoid subscripting arrays or hashes within loops."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary