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A quantity displayed below the normal line of text (and generally in a smaller point size), as the ``'' in
, is
called a subscript. Subscripts are commonly used to indicate indices (
is the entry in the
th row and
th column of a Matrix A), partial differentiation (
is an abbreviation for
),
and a host of other operations and notations in mathematics.
See also Superscript