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index (noun sense 4)

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

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.
    He isn't able to find the index of the book.
  2. The index finger; the forefinger.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:index finger
  3. A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
    Synonym: pointer
  4. (typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
    Synonyms: manicule, see others in Wikipedia at manicule § Terminology
  5. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
    Synonym: indicator
    • 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:
      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.
    • 1984 December 22, Gayle Rubin, “Censored: Anti-Porn Laws And Women's Liberation”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 8:
      Their use of these words as epithets is an index of an appallingly low level of feminist awareness.
  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.
  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.

alphabetical listing of items

typography: symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct attention — see manicule

that which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses

sign, indication, token

linguistics: type of noun

data structure

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.
  7. (mechanical engineering, transitive) To use a mechanism to move an object to a precise location.

to arrange an index

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)

From Middle Dutch index, from Latin index.

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

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

index m (invariable)

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

Borrowed from Latin index.[1]

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)
  1. ^ István Tótfalusi (2005), Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára [A Storehouse of Foreign Words: An Explanatory and Etymological Dictionary of Foreign Words], Budapest: Tinta, →ISBN

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

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.

Third-declension noun.

Borrowed from Latin index. Doublet of indice and indiciu.

index n (plural indexuri)

  1. index

Borrowed from Latin index.

index n

  1. index