Index
['ɪndeks] or ['ɪndɛks]
Definition
(noun.) the finger next to the thumb.
(noun.) an alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed.
(noun.) a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time.
(noun.) a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number.
(verb.) adjust through indexation; 'The government indexes wages and prices'.
(verb.) provide with an index; 'index the book'.
(verb.) list in an index.
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Definition
(n.) That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
(n.) That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; -- called also fist.
(n.) A table for facilitating reference to topics, names, and the like, in a book; -- usually alphabetical in arrangement, and printed at the end of the volume.
(n.) A prologue indicating what follows.
(n.) The second digit, that next pollex, in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger.
(n.) The figure or letter which shows the power or root of a quantity; the exponent.
(v. t.) To provide with an index or table of references; to put into an index; as, to index a book, or its contents.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [L. pl. Indices, Eng. pl. Indexes.] [1]. Pointer, hand, director.[2]. Alphabetical table of references.[3]. Exponent.[4]. Characteristic (of a logarithm), integral part.[5]. (Anat.) Fore finger.
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Definition
n. anything that indicates or points out: a hand that directs to anything as the hour of the day &c.: the forefinger: alphabetical list of subjects treated of in a book: (math.) the exponent of a power:—pl. Indexes (in′deks-ez) and in math. Indices (in′di-sēz).—v.t. to provide with or place in an index.—ns. In′dex-dig′it In′dex-fing′er the forefinger or in other animals that digit representing the human index.—adjs. Index′ical; In′dexless without an index.—Index Expurgatorius in the R.C. Church an authoritative list of books only to be read in expurgated editions; Index Librorum Expurgandorum or Index Librorum Prohibitorum an official list of books which the faithful are absolutely forbidden to read at all under pain of instant excommunication; Index rerum an index of subjects; Index verborum an index of words.
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Examples
- As was to be expected, the card index and electrically operated features caused thousands of concerns, large and small, to adopt the addressograph. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The size of their following, the intensity of their demands are a fair index of what the statesman must think about. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- When the steam pressure varies in this flat tube its coil expands or contracts, and in moving the index hand over the scale indicates the degree of pressure. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- With the coming of the metal card index addressograph and the modern graphotype for making the metal address plates, the addressing machine business was revolutionized, as Mr. Duncan put it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- My introduction to these cruel and bloodthirsty people was but an index to the scenes I witnessed almost daily while with them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Professor Wheatstone has recently contrived an improvement in his index telegraph, which was described by Professor Faraday in a lecture at the Royal Institution in June last. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- They have no marginal indices, it is true; but that perhaps is asking for too much at present. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Before the present writer lie half a dozen books, and there are good indices to three of them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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