Get to know Superscript better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like superior or subscript.
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.
Using Superscript
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: superior, subscript, adscript, character.
- In the example corpus, superscript often appears in combinations such as: the superscript, superscript indicates, where superscript.
Context around Superscript
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Superscript
- In this selection, "superscript" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, negative, index, use, indicates, numbers and may stand out and add context to how "superscript" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a prefixed superscript in a and a superscript may be. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "superscript" sits close to words such as abdulkadir, abed and abhay, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with superscript
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Also used to indicate exponentiation where superscript is not available. (10 words)
In general, authors retain asterisks for "unattested", and prefix ˣ, **, or a superscript "?" for the latter meaning. (17 words)
Consequently, it allowed symbols like "½" for ".5" and the superscript 2 for "to the power of 2". (18 words)
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. (39 words)
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. (33 words)
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). (30 words)
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.
Common combinations with superscript
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the superscript 5×
- superscript indicates 2×
- where superscript 2×
- superscript is 2×
- superscript numbers 2×
- by superscript 2×
- superscript for 2×
- as superscript 2×
- in superscript 2×
- or superscript 2×