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.
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Subscript
//ˈsʌbskɹɪpt//
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26 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- долен индекс noun (a type of lettering form)
Catalan
1 entries- subíndex noun (a type of lettering form)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 下標 /下标 noun (a type of lettering form)
Czech
1 entries- dolní index noun (a type of lettering form)
Finnish
1 entries- alaindeksi noun (a type of lettering form)
French
2 entries- indice noun (a type of lettering form)
- lettre inférieure noun (a type of lettering form)
German
4 entries- Subskript noun (a type of lettering form)
- Tiefstellung noun (a type of lettering form)
- tiefgestelltes Druckzeichen noun (a type of lettering form)
- tiefgestelltes Zeichen noun (a type of lettering form)
Greek
1 entries- δείκτης noun (a type of lettering form)
Hungarian
1 entries- alsó index noun (a type of lettering form)
Indonesian
1 entries- subskrip noun (a type of lettering form)
Irish
1 entries- foscript noun (a type of lettering form)
Italian
1 entries- pedice noun (a type of lettering form)
Japanese
1 entries- 下付き noun (a type of lettering form)
Macedonian
2 entries- индекс noun (a type of lettering form)
- подзнак noun (a type of lettering form)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- senket skrift noun (a type of lettering form)
Portuguese
1 entries- subscrito noun (a type of lettering form)
Russian
2 entries- ни́жний и́ндекс noun (a type of lettering form)
- субскри́пт noun (a type of lettering form)
Slovak
1 entries- dolný index noun (a type of lettering form)
Spanish
1 entries- subíndice noun (a type of lettering form)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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