index

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Etymology edit

From Latin index (“a discoverer, informer, spy; of things, an indicator, the forefinger, a title, superscription”), from indicō (“point out, show”); see indicate.

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪndɛks/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun edit

index (plural indexes or indices or (obsolete, in use in the 17th century) index's)

1. An alphabetical listing of items and their location.

   The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.

2. The index finger; the forefinger.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:index finger

3. A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
4. (typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.

   Synonym: manicule

5. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
   • 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], 1st Irish edition, Dublin: […] S. Powell, for George Risk, […], George Ewing, […], and William Smith, […], →OCLC:

     Tastes are the Indexes of the different Qualities of Plants.

6. A sign; an indication; a token.
   • 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Misadventures of John Nicholson:

     His son's empty guffaws […] struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.

7. (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.
8. (economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
9. (sciences) A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.
   • 1963, Richard Feynman, “Chapter 26, Optics: The Principle of Least Time”, in The Feynman Lectures on Physics, volume I:

     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.

10. (mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
11. (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.
12. (computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
13. (algebra, index of a subgroup) The number of cosets that exist.

    The index of 2ℤ in ℤ is 2.

14. (obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
    • 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]:

      Ay me, what act, that roars so loud and thunders in the index?

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• ⇒ Chinese: 引得 (yǐndé)
• → Japanese: インデックス (indekkusu)

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See also edit

• (alphabetical listing): table of contents

References edit

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “index”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Verb edit

index (third-person singular simple present indexes, present participle indexing, simple past and past participle indexed)

1. (transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.

   MySQL does not index short words and common words.

2. To inventory; to take stock.
3. (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.
4. To measure by an associated value.
   • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

5. (linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
   • 2008, Haruko Minegishi Cook, Socializing Identities Through Speech Style, page 22:

     For example, the feature I indexes the current speaker in the speech event and you, the current addressee.

6. (computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.

Derived terms edit

• indexer

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Further reading edit

• “index”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “index”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams edit

• nixed, xenid

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪndɛks]

• audio

  (file)

Noun edit

index m inan

1. index (alphabetical listing of items and their location)

   Synonym: rejstřík

2. (economics) index

   index spotřebitelských cen ― consumer price index

3. (computing, databases) index (a data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table)

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• See dikce

Further reading edit

• index in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• index in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Etymology edit

From Middle Dutch index, from Latin index.

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.dɛks/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: in‧dex

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index m (plural indexen or indices, diminutive indexje n)

1. index (list)
2. index (number or coefficient representing various relations)
3. (medicine, anatomy) index finger

   Synonym: wijsvinger

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• brekingsindex
• prijsindex

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• → Indonesian: indèks

Etymology edit

From Latin index (“pointer, indicator”), from indicō (“point out, show”).

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.dɛks/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun edit

index m (plural index)

1. index
2. forefinger
3. the welcome page of a web site, typically index.html, index.htm or index.php

Derived terms edit

• mettre à l’index

Descendants edit

• → Turkish: endeks, indeks

Further reading edit

• “index”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin index.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): [ˈindɛks]
• Hyphenation: in‧dex
• Rhymes: -ɛks

Noun edit

index (plural indexek)

1. (automotive) turn signal (US), indicator (UK) (each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change)

   Synonym: irányjelző

2. pointer, hand, indicator (a needle or dial on a device)

   Synonyms: mutató, kar

3. (higher education) transcript, report card, course report (in higher education)

   Synonym: leckekönyv

   Coordinate term: (in lower education) ellenőrző

4. index (an alphabetical listing of items and their location, usually at the end of publications)

   Synonyms: névmutató, tárgymutató, szómutató

5. ban, blacklist (a list of books that was banned)

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Further reading edit

• index in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Etymology edit

From in + the root of dīcere (“to indicate”) +‎ -s. Compare iūdex.

Pronunciation edit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.deks/, [ˈɪn̪d̪ɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.deks/, [ˈin̪d̪eks]

Noun edit

index m or f (genitive indicis); third declension

1. A pointer, indicator.
2. The index finger, forefinger.

   Synonym: digitus salūtāris

3. (of books) An index, list, catalogue, table, summary, digest.
4. (of books) A title, superscription.
5. A sign, indication, proof, mark, token, index.

   Synonyms: signum, indicium

6. An informer, discoverer, director, talebearer, guide, witness, betrayer, spy.

   Synonym: trāditor

7. (of paintings or statues) An inscription.

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Third-declension noun.

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References edit

• “index”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “index”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• index in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• index in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the title of a book: index, inscriptio libri
    
• “index”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “index”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “index”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin index. Doublet of indice and indiciu.

Noun edit

index n (plural indexuri)

1. index

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Borrowed from Latin index.

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index n

1. index

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