What's the difference between subscript and superscript?

Subscript


Definition:

  • (a.) 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.
  • (n.) Anything written below.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) OnLive launched in 2010 and now offers over 200 titles via a subscription-based model.
  • (2) Streaming and subscription revenues rose by more than 50% over the past year to reach $1.1bn, helping overall sales of recorded music in Europe grow for the first time in 12 years, according to figures published yesterday.
  • (3) The Economist, which has just launched a single-copy subscription service and reached an undisclosed settlement with oil tycoon Gennady Timchenko in July, saw UK sales rise 2.6% year on year to 187,341.
  • (4) In that time Beats launched a new range of headphones and portable speakers, designed and manufactured in house, and then in January 2014 the company launched Beats Music – a music streaming subscription service built upon the company’s acquisition of a similar service called MOG in 2012.
  • (5) A review of efforts to formulate basic medical journal lists and a report of a survey of subscriptions held in academic health science libraries is presented.
  • (6) The Conservative MP calling for the BBC licence fee to be replaced with a voluntary subscription is expecting a response to his request for a review of the matter from the culture secretary by the middle of the week.
  • (7) YouView – a joint venture between the BBC, ITV, BT, Channel 4, Channel 5, Arqiva and TalkTalk – aims to replace Freeview as a subscription-free interactive TV service to rival pay-TV giants BSkyB and Virgin Media.
  • (8) The company has leapt from 24 million active users and 6 million paying subscribers in March last year and is the world’s biggest music subscription service.
  • (9) Globally, 20m people paid to use subscription music services in 2012, according to another industry body, the IFPI, which has highlighted streaming's impact in Sweden and Norway as a sign of bright times ahead for other countries.
  • (10) The transport of taurocholate across the brush-border membranes was stimulated in the presence of Na(+) compared with the presence of K(+); stimulation was about 11-fold in the presence of a NaCl gradient (Na(o)>Na(i)), where the subscripts refer to ;outside' and ;inside' respectively, and 4-fold under equilibrium conditions for Na(+) (Na(o)=Na(i)).
  • (11) Nature , one of the world's leading cross-disciplinary scientific journals and owned by the publishing group Macmillan, charges subscriptions for access to its suite of magazines and websites.
  • (12) Speculation about YouTube's plans for a Spotify-style subscription service have been swirling for some time.
  • (13) It is trying to get people to pay for music too: it’s launching its own Spotify rival, YouTube Music Key, with a similar model of a free, ad-supported tier then a £9.99 monthly subscription with more features.
  • (14) YouTube Music Key will sit alongside parent company Google’s existing subscription music service, Google Play Music All Access.
  • (15) Netflix is the most popular film subscription website in the US, with more than 25 million users in its domestic market, Canada and Latin America.
  • (16) Last month, the Sunday Telegraph distributed 72,779 bulks and subscriptions accounted for 321,665 copies.
  • (17) Sales are driven by annual subscriptions, rather than casual purchases – it gets cash up front.
  • (18) We have got a broadcast ecology here that works, the licence fee funded BBC, advertiser-funded services, subscription services as well.
  • (19) "In Midcounties, we are setting up a campaigns fund that will replace the subscription we previously paid to the Co-operative party.
  • (20) It elicited howls of outrage from readers threatening to cancel their subscriptions, insulting Ensley, and wishing the newspaper would not even mention the scandal.

Superscript


Definition:

  • (n.) Superscription.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because of the different cathodal mobilities of PGM1-gene products, the allelic superscripts for PGM1 were designated as 1F, 1S, and 2F, 2S, respectively.
  • (2) From an experimental study on the linkage between dimer-tetramer association and oxygen binding in human hemoglobin it is found that triliganded tetramers alpha(2)beta(2)(O(2))(3) have an affinity for oxygen that is significantly higher than that of alpha(1)beta(1) dimers (superscripts denote intersubunit contacts).
  • (3) (The superscript numbers refer to the positions of residues in native somatostatin).
  • (4) By assuming that these effects arise from the aggregation induced by PEG, the relative tendency of the four enzyme forms, defined by the four limiting states of ligation, to aggregate is inferred to be Kad less than Kaxd less than or equal to Kxd much less than Kd, where Kd equals the dissociation constant for the most aggregated form of PFK dissociating to form n tetramers, and the superscripts a, x, and ax refer to the existence of bound Fru-6-P, MgATP, or both Fru-6-P and MgATP, respectively.
  • (5) [D-Ala(2)(2R,3S)-delta(E)Phe(4)Leu(5)]enkephalin (CP-OH) [delta denoting cyclopropyl; superscript E indicating the E-configuration about the cyclopropane ring], a highly selective opioid ligand for delta receptors in rat brain, but not for those in the mouse vas deferens, was examined for in vivo biological activities by intracerebroventricular administration.
  • (6) Our studies of cyclic somatostatin analogs are based on the highly active Merck analog c(-Pro6-Phe7-D-Trp8-Lys9-Thr10-Phe11-) (where the superscripts denote position in native somatostatin).
  • (7) The superscript numbers refer to positions in native somatostatin.
  • (8) Square brackets indicate that the peptide is an analogue; substituted amino acids are identified by the three-letter code; superscripted numbers indicating the residue at which the substitution, removal or addition occurs.
  • (9) Differences (P less than 0.01) were observed in peak Ca2+i levels 18 sec after pulse with mean percent change in fluorescence of 5.1%a, 33.9%b, 112.7%c, 1.2%a, 9.3%a, and 99.9%c for T1-T6, respectively (values with different superscripts are significantly different at P less than 0.01).
  • (10) First-strand cDNA was synthesized using random hexanucleotide DNA primers and M-MuLV reverse transcriptase (Superscript RT).

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