Dictionary

index en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɪndɛks/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• [ˈɪndæks] (California) California Vowel Shift
• (California, Southern) audio
• /ˈɪndeks/ (Australia)
• /ˈɪndɛks/ (California)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Old Latin en Latin in Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *déyḱeti Proto-Italic *deikō Latin dīcō Proto-Indo-European *-s Latin -s 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.

Meanings

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.
   • This encyclopedia includes a topical index.
2. The index finger; the forefinger.
3. A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
4. A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
5. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
   • Tastes are the Indexes of the different Qualities of Plants. 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:
   • Among the gravity indexes is the severance of diplomatic relations.
6. A sign; an indication; a token.
   • Their use of these words as epithets is an index of an appallingly low level of feminist awareness. 1984 December 22, Gayle Rubin, “Censored: Anti-Porn Laws And Women's Liberation”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 8:
   • His son's empty guffaws […] struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind. 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Misadventures of John Nicholson:
7. 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. A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
9. A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.
   • 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. 1963, Richard Feynman, “Chapter 26, Optics: The Principle of Least Time”, in The Feynman Lectures on Physics, volume I:
10. A raised suffix indicating a power.
11. (especially) An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
12. A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
13. (qualifier: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.
    • Ay me, what act, that roars so loud and thunders in the index? 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]:

Forms

Deriveds

Banzhaf power index · index of suspicion · Hawking Index · memex · burning index · Pokédex · glycemic index · body mass index · Törnqvist index · Soundex · ponderal index · inverted index · Kardashian index · glindex · Aarne-Thompson-Uther index · subindex · closet index · Palmer drought index · de Bruijn index · index digit · linguistic diversity index · index fossil · index verborum · indexless · index rerum · tab index · Balassa index · refractive index · vulnerability index · anti-knock index · index of refraction · Sensex · Hoover index · Nikkei index · ramp travel index · unindex · process window index · card index · cranial index · anti-index · price index · Quetelet index · Palmer index · abundancy index · index card · Gunning fog index · index nominum · Townsend deprivation index · producer price index · deindex · consumer price index · card-index · cross-index · ease of doing business index · clustered index · index term · corpulence index · Rolodex · vital index · Herfindahl index · misery index · crackpot index · iodine index · index register · Rohrer's index · index fund · Quetelet's index · thumb index · business index · Jaccard index · orbital index · index locorum · hyperindex · stock market index · Carrico index · superindex · index patient · Horowitz index · z-index · indexical · Schutz index · gnathic index · coindex · edge index · index-linked · h-index · nasal index · Gini index · open index · covering index · temperature-humidity index · nonclustered index · Sørensen index · Robin Hood index · index case · indexlike · humidex · glycaemic index · disposition index · indexal · heat index · Atiyah-Singer index theorem · Sørensen-Dice index · Gittins index · therapeutic index · indexic

Descendants

引得 · インデックス

Relateds

indicator · indicia · indication · indicate · table of contents (alphabetical listing)

Synonyms

arrow-finger · indicator · demonstrator · pointer · pointer · index finger · see others in Wikipedia at manicule § Terminology · trigger finger · pointling · first finger · forefinger · index · lickpot · showing finger · pointer finger · teacher · manicule

Translations (166)

ka საძიებელი (alphabetical listing of items) · it indice (economics: single number calculated from an array of prices or quantities) · be і́ндэкс (alphabetical listing of items) · ko 색인 (alphabetical listing of items) · bg степенен показател (mathematics: raised suffix indicating a power) · fi indeksi (data structure) · sv index (data structure) · de Index (data structure) · alt кӧргӱзӱ (alphabetical listing of items) · gd clàr-amais (alphabetical listing of items) · he מפתח (alphabetical listing of items) · ja 索引 (alphabetical listing of items) · mk индекс (alphabetical listing of items) · cmn 引得 (alphabetical listing of items) · fi paikkanumero (programming: key indicating location of data) · gl índice (alphabetical listing of items) · nl index (alphabetical listing of items) · hu mutató (alphabetical listing of items) · sl indeks (alphabetical listing of items) · sl kazalec (alphabetical listing of items) · ru знак (sign, indication, token) · pl indeks (economics: single number calculated from an array of prices or quantities) · tr endeks (alphabetical listing of items) · no innholdsfortegnelse (alphabetical listing of items) · sh ка̀зало (alphabetical listing of items) · pl skorowidz (alphabetical listing of items) · ru указа́тель (alphabetical listing of items) · sv förteckning (alphabetical listing of items) · fi indikaattori (that which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses) · ar دَلِيل (alphabetical listing of items) · bg и́ндекс (alphabetical listing of items) · fa فهرست (alphabetical listing of items) · fi osoitin (programming: key indicating location of data) · el πίνακας (alphabetical listing of items) · az göstərici (sign, indication, token) · ms indeks (alphabetical listing of items) · eu indizea (alphabetical listing of items) · bg знак (sign, indication, token) · te విషయ సూచిక (alphabetical listing of items) · tr indeks (economics: single number calculated from an array of prices or quantities) · gl expoñente (mathematics: raised suffix indicating a power) · bg коефициент (science: number representing a property or ratio) · es índice (movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.) · id indeks (alphabetical listing of items) · cs index (alphabetical listing of items) · uk і́ндекс (alphabetical listing of items) · ca índex (alphabetical listing of items) · sv index (economics: single number calculated from an array of prices or quantities) · hu hatványkitevő (mathematics: raised suffix indicating a power) · fi indeksi (economics: single number calculated from an array of prices or quantities) · tr dizin (alphabetical listing of items) · cmn 指數 /指数 (economics: single number calculated from an array of prices or quantities) · cs rejstřík (alphabetical listing of items) · tl talaturuan (alphabetical listing of items) · cmn 索引 (alphabetical listing of items) · sq indeks (alphabetical listing of items) · cy ddangoseg (alphabetical listing of items) · eo indekso (programming: key indicating location of data) · it indice (alphabetical listing of items) · lt indeksas (alphabetical listing of items) · fi osoitin (movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.) · pl indeks (science: number representing a property or ratio) · nl register (alphabetical listing of items) · pl indeks (programming: key indicating location of data) · sl kazalo (alphabetical listing of items) · te సూచిక (alphabetical listing of items) · no innhold (alphabetical listing of items) · pl spis (alphabetical listing of items) · ja インデックス (alphabetical listing of items) · fi kerroin (science: number representing a property or ratio) · no stikkordregister (alphabetical listing of items) · ru коэффицие́нт (science: number representing a property or ratio) · ru показа́тель сте́пени (mathematics: raised suffix indicating a power) · ru и́ндекс (data structure) · th ดัชนี (alphabetical listing of items) · pl wykładnik (mathematics: raised suffix indicating a power) · el δείκτης (economics: single number calculated from an array of prices or quantities) · ga innéacs (alphabetical listing of items) · mi kuputohu (that which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses) · hu névmutató (alphabetical listing of items) · bg индекс (economics: single number calculated from an array of prices or quantities) · sh kàzalo (alphabetical listing of items) · cy dangoseg (alphabetical listing of items) · af indeks (alphabetical listing of items) · is veldisvísir (alphabetical listing of items) · bg индекс (programming: key indicating location of data) · bg показател (sign, indication, token) · mi tauine (science: number representing a property or ratio) · gd clàr-amais (data structure) · pl indeks (alphabetical listing of items) · is röðunarskrá (alphabetical listing of items) · ar فِهْرِس (programming: key indicating location of data) · ro index (alphabetical listing of items) · fi indeksi (programming: key indicating location of data) · sv index (alphabetical listing of items) · es índex (movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.) · de Index (alphabetical listing of items) · ru и́ндекс (alphabetical listing of items) · el εκθέτης (mathematics: raised suffix indicating a power) · ka ხარისხის მაჩვენებელი (programming: key indicating location of data) · no indeks (alphabetical listing of items) · el κατάλογος (alphabetical listing of items) · es índice (index finger) · ja 表題 (alphabetical listing of items) · el ένδειξη (sign, indication, token) · fi indeksi (science: number representing a property or ratio) · ta அட்டவணை (alphabetical listing of items) · fr indice (economics: single number calculated from an array of prices or quantities) · fi merkki (sign, indication, token) · cs index (data structure) · es índice (alphabetical listing of items) · ja 総目録 (alphabetical listing of items) · fa نمایه (alphabetical listing of items) · mi tātai pukapuka (alphabetical listing of items) · cs index (economics: single number calculated from an array of prices or quantities) · cy nangoseg (alphabetical listing of items) · ar فِهْرِس (alphabetical listing of items) · pl indeks (mathematics: raised suffix indicating a power) · fi hakemisto (data structure) · sh ѝндекс (alphabetical listing of items) · ka ინდექსი (economics: single number calculated from an array of prices or quantities) · kn ಸೂಚಿ (alphabetical listing of items) · vi chỉ số (alphabetical listing of items) · bg указател (data structure) · fi indeksi (linguistics: type of noun) · hu tárgymutató (alphabetical listing of items) · vi chỉ mục (alphabetical listing of items) · ru показа́тель (sign, indication, token) · ru и́ндекс (economics: single number calculated from an array of prices or quantities) · pt expoente (mathematics: raised suffix indicating a power) · fi hakemisto (alphabetical listing of items) · sh pokàzatelj (alphabetical listing of items) · bn সূচী (alphabetical listing of items) · la index (alphabetical listing of items) · fi merkki (that which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses) · hu kitevő (mathematics: raised suffix indicating a power) · eo indekso (alphabetical listing of items) · fa شاخص (alphabetical listing of items) · sv index (programming: key indicating location of data) · cy mynegai (alphabetical listing of items) · gl indicio (sign, indication, token) · is atriðaskrá (alphabetical listing of items) · da indeks (programming: key indicating location of data) · sk index (alphabetical listing of items) · fi eksponentti (mathematics: raised suffix indicating a power) · mt indiċi (alphabetical listing of items) · ab аиндекс (programming: key indicating location of data) · hi अनुक्रम (alphabetical listing of items) · fa نمودار (alphabetical listing of items) · hu jegyzék (alphabetical listing of items) · da indholdsfortegnelse (alphabetical listing of items) · pt índice (alphabetical listing of items) · el ευρετήριο (alphabetical listing of items) · ru и́ндекс (programming: key indicating location of data) · cy fynegai (alphabetical listing of items) · fr index (alphabetical listing of items) · sh ìndeks (alphabetical listing of items) · nl inhoud (alphabetical listing of items) · de Verzeichnis (alphabetical listing of items) · eo indekso (data structure) · hy ինդեքս (alphabetical listing of items) · el συντελεστής (science: number representing a property or ratio) · hu index (economics: single number calculated from an array of prices or quantities) · io indexo (alphabetical listing of items) · sh пока̀затељ (alphabetical listing of items) · da indeks (alphabetical listing of items)

wikidata: Q6017816

index en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˈɪndɛks/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• [ˈɪndæks] (California) California Vowel Shift
• (California, Southern) audio
• /ˈɪndeks/ (Australia)
• /ˈɪndɛks/ (California)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Old Latin en Latin in Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *déyḱeti Proto-Italic *deikō Latin dīcō Proto-Indo-European *-s Latin -s 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.

Meanings

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. 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.
   • 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. 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
5. (transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
   • For example, the feature I indexes the current speaker in the speech event and you, the current addressee. 2008, Haruko Minegishi Cook, Socializing Identities Through Speech Style, page 22:
6. To access a value in a data container by an index.
7. (transitive) To use a mechanism to move an object to a precise location.

Forms

Deriveds

indexable · reindex · overindex · indexability · indexer

Translations (18)

pl indeksować (to arrange an index) · es indexar (to arrange an index) · nl indexeren (to arrange an index) · eo indeksi (to arrange an index) · bg индексирам (to arrange an index) · fi indeksoida (to arrange an index) · el καταλογογραφώ (to arrange an index) · es indizar (to arrange an index) · ca indexar (to arrange an index) · uk індексува́ти (to arrange an index) · ru индекси́ровать (to arrange an index) · uk проіндексува́ти (to arrange an index) · fr indexer (to arrange an index) · pt indexar (to arrange an index) · cs indexovat (to arrange an index) · da indeksere (to arrange an index) · it indicizzare (to arrange an index) · de indizieren (to arrange an index)