footnote
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/ˈfʊtˌnəʊt/
English
Definitions
noun
- A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text.“consult the footnotes for more details”
- (by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.“a mere footnote in history”
- A qualification to the import of something.
verb
- To add footnotes to a text.
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annotateendnotenotationcross-referenceannotationmemorandumpostscriptmemocitepagebaselinenotecoveragerecordreferencingbenchmark