Definition of "superscript" []

• A character set, printed, or written above and immediately to one side of another: In x2 the superscript is 2. (noun)

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• "WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: In those days typewriters didn't normally have that kind of superscript?"
• "The numbers appear in the main part of the LCD window, and the current operator as a kind of superscript, above them."
• "We are more used to seeing the theorem in its algebraic face — a simple sum, with a superscript caveat: a2 + b2 = c2."