subscriptable

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adjective

Capable of being subscripted.

OriginEnglish subscript ← Middle English scrit ← Old French escrit →
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Meanings

adjectivesubscriptable (not comparable)
  1. not comparablecomputingCapable of being subscripted.

    If the container is subscriptable and you remember the position where a particular piece of data was stored, you can use the subscript to efficiently retrieve the data.

    2012, Robert Robson, Using the STL: The C++ Standard Template Library, page 249

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*upó
  2. Proto-Italic*supo
  3. Latinsub
  4. Latinsub-
  5. Englishsub-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-?
  7. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kreybʰ-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kréybʰeti
  9. Proto-Italic*skreiβō
  10. Latinscrībō
  11. Latinscrīptum
  12. Old Frenchescrit
  13. Middle Englishscrit
  14. Englishscript
  15. Englishsubscript
  16. Englishsubscriptable

From subscript + -able.

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Chicago

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