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What is another word for subscripts?

Pronunciation: [sˈʌbskɹɪpts] (IPA)

Subscripts, also referred to as indices, are numerical or alphabetical characters that are positioned below a line of text or a numerical expression to signify a particular parameter or variable. In the field of mathematics and science, subscripts are commonly used to represent chemical elements and numbers in equations and formulas. Other synonyms for the term subscripts include underscripts, inferior characters, and tiny letters or numbers. In computer programming, subscripts are also known as array indices or indexes. These synonyms are used interchangeably to denote the same concept of writing characters or symbols in a lower position to indicate a specific value or entity.
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  • There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities-- potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry-- that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.
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