Dictionary Definition
indexing n : the act of classifying and providing
an index in order to make items easier to retrieve
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
indexing- present participle of index
Extensive Definition
An index is a system used to make finding
information easier.
Index may also refer to:
- Index (publishing), a detailed list, usually arranged alphabetically, of the specific information in a publication
- Index cards in a rolodex or old library card catalog, early and mid 20th century technologies for maintaining such lists
- Index (mathematics), for various meanings of the word in mathematics
- Index (economics), a single number calculated from an array of prices and quantities.
- Index, Washington, a town in Snohomish County, Washington, United States
- Index, New York, a hamlet in the County and Town of Otsego, New York, United States
- Index (typography), a largely obsolete punctuation mark
- Indexing (motion), a kind of motion in many areas of mechanical engineering and machining
In publications:
- Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of publications which the Catholic Church censored
- Germany's List of Media Harmful to Young People, colloquially known as The Index, published by the Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien
- Index Magazine, was a prominent New York City based publication for art and culture
- Truman State University Index, the weekly student newspaper
- The Index, the student newspaper of Kalamazoo College, published since 1877
- The Index (journal), a European propaganda journal created by Henry Hotze to support the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War
In computers and information retrieval:
- Index (database), a feature in a computerized database which allows quick access to the rows in a table
- Index (information technology), either an integer which identifies an array element, or a data structure which enables fast lookup
- Index (search engine), for supporting information retrieval in search engines
- Webserver directory index, a default or index web page in a directory on a web server, such as index.html
- Subject indexing, describing the content of a document by keywords
- BitTorrent index, a list of .torrent files available for searches
Other:
- The Index, an item on the Halo (megastructure) in the Halo series of video games
- The Index (Dubai), a tower under construction in Dubai
- Index (retailer), a defunct UK catalogue retailer formerly owned by the Littlewoods group and known as Littlewoods Index
- Index finger, the second digit of a human hand
- Index fund, a collective investment scheme
- Indexicality, in linguistics, the variation of meaning of an utterance according to certain features of the context in which it is uttered
indexing in Czech: Index
indexing in German: Index
indexing in Esperanto: Indekso
indexing in French: Index
indexing in Ido: Indico
indexing in Italian: Index
indexing in Hebrew: אינדקס
indexing in Hungarian: Index
indexing in Dutch: Index
indexing in Japanese: インデックス
indexing in Russian: Индекс
indexing in Ukrainian: Індекс
indexing in Albanian: Treguesi
indexing in Simple English: Index
indexing in Swedish: Index
indexing in Finnish: Indeksi