index

Meaning of index

noun
  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.
  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.
  6. A sign; an indication; a token.
  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.
  10. A raised suffix indicating a power.
  11. 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. A prologue indicating what follows.
verb
  1. To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
  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 be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
  5. To access a value in a data container by an index.

Information about index

Hyphenation of index

in-dex

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 5 chars.
  • index is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

index synonyms

Meaning index number:

indicant, indicator

Meaning exponent:

exponent, power

Meaning index finger:

forefinger

Translation of index

Anagrams of index

nixed

Words that rhyme with index

Candex, spandex, Clindex, Gravindex, Index, Windex, autoindex, reindex, subindex, vindex, Ferndex

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