footnotes

/F UH1 T N OW0 T S/
noun
  1. 1

    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

  2. 2

    (by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.

    a mere footnote in history

  3. 3

    A qualification to the import of something.

verb
  1. 1

    To add footnotes to a text.

Synonyms

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footnote, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footnotes