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Superscript meaning
A type of lettering form that appears as a number, figure, or symbol above the normal line of type, located at the right or left of another symbol or text.
Example sentences (20)
After this normalization, the raw moments and central moments of can be calculated from the relative histogram: : : where the superscript indicates the moments are calculated from the histogram.
All the clusters are shown in the following table, phonetically, i.e. superscript ʰ can mark either contrastive or non-contrastive aspiration (see above).
Also used to indicate exponentiation where superscript is not available.
A similar system was devised by Carl Eitz and used in Barbour (1951) in which Pythagorean notes are started with and positive or negative superscript numbers are added indicating how many commas (81/80, syntonic comma) to adjust by.
A superscript may be added to distinguish between transpositions, using 0–11 to indicate the lowest pitch class in the cycle.
Bare consonants are indicated either by separate diacritics, or by superscript versions of the aksharas; there is no vowel-killer mark.
Before it is registered, it is common practice (with some legal standing) to use the service mark symbol ℠ (a superscript SM).
By being made superscript, any IPA letter may function as a diacritic, conferring elements of its articulation to the base letter.
Consequently, it allowed symbols like "½" for ".5" and the superscript 2 for "to the power of 2".
Different isotopes of a given element are distinguished by their mass numbers, which are conventionally written as a superscript on the left hand side of the atomic symbol (e.
Fluid mechanics In fluid mechanics an asterisk in superscript is sometimes used to mean a property at sonic speed.
Hiragana can also be written in a superscript called furigana above or beside a kanji to show the proper reading.
However, it may also arise from confusion of ‘ (turned comma or "6-quote"), which was used as a substitute for superscript c when printing with hand-set metal type.
If the transformation matrix of an index is the inverse matrix of the basis transformation, then the index is called contravariant and is traditionally denoted with an upper index (superscript).
In general, authors retain asterisks for "unattested", and prefix ˣ, **, or a superscript "?" for the latter meaning.
In general, the exponent (or superscript) indicates how many times the base appears in the expression, so that the expression : indicates that n copies of the base a are to be multiplied together.
In these cases, it is customary to use superscript numerals ¹ and ² to mark consonant signs used with back and front vowels, respectively.
Isotopes Although isotopes are more relevant to nuclear chemistry or stable isotope chemistry than to conventional chemistry, different isotopes may be indicated with a prefixed superscript in a chemical formula.
Note the lowercase letters (neither "metres" nor "seconds" were named after people), the space between the value and the units, and the superscript "2" to denote "squared".
Other ascender letters with carons, such as letters ȟ (used in Finnish Romani and Lakota ) and ǩ (used in Skolt Sami ), did not modify their carons to superscript commas.