noun. A note placed at the bottom of a page of a book or manuscript that comments on or cites a reference for a designated part of the text.

noun. Something related to but of lesser importance than a larger work or occurrence.

transitive verb. To furnish with or comment on in footnotes.

noun. In printing, a note at the bottom of a page as an appendage to something in the text, usually explaining a passage in the text, or specifying authority for a statement.

noun. A note of reference or comment at the foot{4} of a page.

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

noun. An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related

verb. To add footnotes to a text; to annotate

verb. add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments

noun. a printed note placed below the text on a printed page

"Finally, the economic character of purchasing health care would seem to require careful pause before considering it to be encompassed within the right to privacy, as the very sentence this footnote is appended to: “[T] he existence of facts supporting the legislative judgment is to be presumed, for regulatory legislation affecting ordinary commercial transactions is not to be pronounced unconstitutional unless, in the light of the facts made known or generally assumed, it is of such a character as to preclude the assumption that it rests upon some rational basis within the knowledge and experience of the legislators.”"

endnote  headnote  

annotation  compose  indite  notation  note  

20036-5610  allusion  appendix  aside  bibliography  

adversaria  aide-memoire  annotation  apparatus criticus  comment  

footnoted  footnotes  footnoting