index
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪndɛks/
ipa: /ˈɪndɛks/
note: California Vowel Shift
ipa: [ˈɪndæks]
ipa: /ˈɪndeks/
Forms: form: indexes
form: indices
form: index's
raw_tags: in use in the 17th century
Etymology: From Latin index (“a discoverer, informer, spy; of things, an indicator, the forefinger, a title, superscription”), from indicō (“point out, show”); see indicate.
Senses: examples: text: The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.
text: He isn't able to find the index of the book.
glosses: An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
synonyms: word: arrow-finger
word: demonstrator
word: first finger
word: forefinger
word: index
word: index finger
word: lickpot
word: pointer
word: pointer finger
word: pointling
word: showing finger
word: teacher
word: trigger finger
glosses: The index finger; the forefinger.
glosses: A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: manicule
see others in Wikipedia at manicule § Terminology
glosses: A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
examples: text: Tastes are the Indexes of the different Qualities of Plants.
ref: 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
examples: text: His son's empty guffaws […] struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.
ref: 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Misadventures of John Nicholson:
text: Their use of these words as epithets is an index of an appallingly low level of feminist awareness.
ref: 1984 December 22, Gayle Rubin, “Censored: Anti-Porn Laws And Women's Liberation”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 8:
glosses: A sign; an indication; a token.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context; e.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
examples: text: In other words, we predict that the index for a new pair of materials can be obtained from the indexes of the individual materials, both against air or against vacuum.
ref: 1963, Richard Feynman, “Chapter 26, Optics: The Principle of Least Time”, in The Feynman Lectures on Physics, volume I:
topics: sciences
glosses: A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A raised suffix indicating a power.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
examples: text: The index of 2ℤ in ℤ is 2.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: index of a subgroup
glosses: The number of cosets that exist.
examples: text: Ay me, what act, that roars so loud and thunders in the index?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
glosses: A prologue indicating what follows.
Derived terms: Aarne-Thompson-Uther index
abundancy index
anti-index
anti-knock index
Atiyah-Singer index theorem
Balassa index
Banzhaf power index
body mass index
burning index
business index
card-index
card index
Carrico index
closet index
clustered index
coindex
consumer price index
corpulence index
covering index
cranial index
cross-index
de Bruijn index
deindex
disposition index
ease of doing business index
edge index
Gini index
Gittins index
glindex
glycaemic index
glycemic index
gnathic index
Gunning fog index
Hawking Index
heat index
Herfindahl index
h-index
Hoover index
Horowitz index
humidex
hyperindex
indexal
index card
index case
index digit
index fossil
index fund
indexic
indexical
indexless
indexlike
index-linked
index locorum
index nominum
index of suspicion
index patient
index register
index rerum
index term
index verborum
inverted index
iodine index
Jaccard index
Kardashian index
linguistic diversity index
memex
misery index
nasal index
Nikkei index
nonclustered index
open index
orbital index
Pokédex
ponderal index
price index
process window index
producer price index
Quetelet index
Quetelet's index
ramp travel index
refractive index
Robin Hood index
Rohrer's index
Rolodex
Schutz index
Sensex
Soundex
stock market index
subindex
superindex
tab index
temperature-humidity index
therapeutic index
thumb index
Törnqvist index
Townsend deprivation index
unindex
vulnerability index
z-index
Related terms: word: indicate
word: indication
word: indicator
word: indicia
sense: alphabetical listing
word: table of contents