index

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪndɛks/

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index (plural indexes or indices)

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. (printing) 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.
   • Arbuthnot

     Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants.

6. A sign; an indication; a token.
   • Robert Louis Stevenson

     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. (obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.

    • "Ay me, what act, that roars so loud and thunders in the index?" (Hamlet III.4)

• (index finger): arrow-finger, demonstrator, forefinger, index finger, insignitor, lickpot, pointling, showing finger, teacher
• See also Thesaurus:index finger

• (alphabetical listing): table of contents

• “index” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

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.
2. To inventory, to take stock.
3. (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.

• indexer

• index in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• index in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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index m

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

• (alphabetical listing): rejstřík

• See dikce
• indexace
• indexový
• indexovat
• indexování
• indicie
• indikace
• indikátor
• indikovat

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

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

1. index

• brekingsindex

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

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.dɛks/

index m (plural index)

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

• “index” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From indicō (“point out, indicate, show”), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + dicō (“indicate; dedicate; set apart”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.deks/, [ˈɪn.dɛks]

index m or f (genitive indicis); third declension

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

   Synonym: digitus salūtāris

3. A sign, indication, proof, mark, token, index.
4. An informer, discoverer, director, talebearer, guide, witness, betrayer, spy.
5. (of books) A title, superscription.
6. (of books) An index, catalogue, table, list, summary, digest.
7. (of paintings or statues) An inscription.

Third declension.

• 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, 1883–1887)
• index in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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 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

index n

1. an index