index
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
computing
databases
economics
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
publishing
sciences
typography
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin indexder.
English index
From Latin index (“a discoverer, informer, spy; of things, an indicator, the forefinger, a title, superscription”), from indicō (“point out, show”); see indicate.
Inflected forms:
form: indexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: indices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: index's
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
form: indexes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: indexing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: indexed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: indexed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
pos: noun
examples: The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.
He isn't able to find the index of the book.
gloss: The index finger; the forefinger.
pos: noun
gloss: A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
pos: noun
gloss: That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
pos: noun
examples: Among the gravity indexes is the severance of diplomatic relations.
Tastes are the Indexes of the different Qualities of Plants.
gloss: A sign; an indication; a token.
pos: noun
examples: His son's empty guffaws […] struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.
Their use of these words as epithets is an index of an appallingly low level of feminist awareness.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
pos: noun
gloss: A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A raised suffix indicating a power.
pos: noun
gloss: An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
pos: noun
tags: especially
gloss: A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
pos: noun
gloss: The number of cosets that exist.
pos: noun
examples: The index of 2ℤ in ℤ is 2.
gloss: A prologue indicating what follows.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Ay me, what act, that roars so loud and thunders in the index?
gloss: To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: MySQL does not index short words and common words.
gloss: To inventory; to take stock.
pos: verb
gloss: To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
pos: verb
gloss: To measure by an associated value.
pos: verb
examples: For thousands of years, human progress was indexed to the ease and speed of our mobility: our capacity to walk on two legs, and then to ride on animals, sail on boats, chug across the land and fly through the air, all to procure for ourselves the food and materials we wanted.
gloss: To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For example, the feature I indexes the current speaker in the speech event and you, the current addressee.
gloss: To access a value in a data container by an index.
pos: verb
gloss: To use a mechanism to move an object to a precise location.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: indicate
indication
indicator
indicia
Derived words: 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
crackpot 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 refraction
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
Palmer drought index
Palmer 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
vital index
vulnerability index
z-index
indexability
indexabl
indexer
overindex
reindex
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