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"ref": "1987, Pragasen Pillay, “Permanent magnet synchronous motor drives and brushless DC motor drives for servo applications”, Conference Record of the 1987 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (Part I), IEEE, page 387",
"text": "The ambient or unsaturated value of a variable is superscripted with a \"*\"."
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"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "superscripted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "superscript (third-person singular simple present superscripts, present participle superscripting, simple past and past participle superscripted)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"tags": [
"feminine",
"ordinal"
],
"word": "ª"
},
{
"tags": [
"masculine",
"ordinal"
],
"word": "º"
},
{
"roman": "superscript n",
"word": "ⁿ"
},
{
"roman": "superscript 1",
"word": "¹"
},
{
"roman": "superscript 2",
"word": "²"
},
{
"roman": "superscript 3",
"word": "³"
},
{
"word": "reference mark"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Mathematics",
"en:Sciences",
"en:Typography"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1987, Pragasen Pillay, “Permanent magnet synchronous motor drives and brushless DC motor drives for servo applications”, Conference Record of the 1987 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (Part I), IEEE, page 387",
"text": "The ambient or unsaturated value of a variable is superscripted with a \"*\"."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To provide with a superscript."
],
"links": [
[
"mathematics",
"mathematics"
],
[
"sciences",
"sciences"
],
[
"typography",
"typography"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mathematics, sciences, typography, transitive, of a variable) To provide with a superscript."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a variable"
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"mathematics",
"media",
"publishing",
"sciences",
"typography"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Typography"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011, Peter Weverka, PowerPoint 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies",
"text": "Select the number or letter you want to superscript and, in the Font dialog box, enter an Offset percentage to tell PowerPoint how high to raise the number or letter.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To convert to a superscript form."
],
"links": [
[
"typography",
"typography"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(typography, transitive, of a text) To convert to a superscript form."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of a text"
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"media",
"publishing",
"typography"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"superscript"
],
"word": "superscript"
}
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