index

IPA: ˈɪndɛks

An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
The index finger; the forefinger.
A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
(typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
A sign; an indication; a token.
(linguistics) 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.
(economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
(sciences) A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.
(mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
(computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
(computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
(obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
An unincorporated community in Miller County, Arkansas.
An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Kentucky.
A ghost town in Cass County, Missouri.
A small hamlet in Otsego County, New York.
An unincorporated community in King George County, Virginia.
A town in Snohomish County, Washington.
An unincorporated community in Gilmer County, West Virginia.

(transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
To inventory; to take stock.
(chiefly economics) To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
To measure by an associated value.
(linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
(computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.

Examples of "index" in Sentences

A title index is provided and microform holdings are also noted.
You can check to see the new posts by looking at the title index below left.
This index is a listing of all speeches delivered by ANC officials during 2004.
That's a pretty major move when you consider that our index is about 50-per-cent U.S.
And their index is the ultimate resource for finding that short story you've heard about ..
University education rises from it, extension education extends from it; the index is your High School population.
When you encounter a term in your document that you would like to be indexed, use the \\index {term} term command You will need to run LTEXtwice in order for the index to appear.
By or selling an index fund and taking the opposite of that trade with specific stocks that are part of the index is an arbitrage strategy that requires lots of computer power, extremely fast executions, and a lot of capital.
The English beautiful woman, though she may still be fair, is by no means very fair, and from the English standpoint she may even sometimes appear somewhat dark: [164] In determining what I call the index of pigmentation -- or degree of darkness of the eyes and hair -- of different groups in the National