superscriptingn.
/ˈsuːpəskrɪptɪŋ/, /ˈsjuːpəskrɪptɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsupərˌskrɪptɪŋ/ The action of providing with a superscript or superscripts; the creation or use of superscripts, now esp. in electronic text.
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > action of providing superscript
superscripting1970
society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > applications program > word processing > character effects
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society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun] > superscription > action of providing with superscript
superscripting1970
1970 Language 46 271 The technique of superscripting..just described is precisely a step in the method outlined in Robinson 1967b.
1972 Information Display 9 ii. 9/1 The generation of three sizes of characters, provision for subscripting and superscripting,..and line feed with single or double spacing.
1982 Byte Apr. 316/2 Both word processors do everything that leading word processors should do:..automatic pagination, automatic headings and footings, underscoring, subscripting and superscripting, and so on.
1987 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 32 210 Everaert's analysis of category identification depends upon superscripting.
1999 Ancestry Nov. 41/3 One of the most common features of a compiled history is superscripting.
2008 M. C. Henson et al. in D. Bjørner & M. C. Henson Logics of Specif. Langs. 499 Types are indicated by superscripting and omitted whenever possible.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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