subscript Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character
    inferior.
  2. adjective written or printed below and to one side of another character
    inferior.

WordNet

Sub"script adjective
Etymology
L. subscriptus, p.p. See Subscribe.
Definitions
  1. 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.
Sub"script noun
Definitions
  1. Anything written below. Bentley.

Webster 1913