Meaning of index | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
2. An alphabetical listing of items and their location
3. An unincorporated community in Miller County, Arkansas.
4. The index finger; the forefinger.
5. The index finger; the forefinger
6. An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Kentucky.
7. A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
8. A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc
9. A ghost town in Cass County, Missouri.
10. A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
11. A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph
12. A small hamlet in Otsego County, New York.
13. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
14. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses
15. An unincorporated community in King George County, Virginia.
16. A sign; an indication; a token.
17. A town in Snohomish County, Washington.
18. 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.
19. An unincorporated community in Gilmer County, West Virginia.
20. A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
21. A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.
22. A raised suffix indicating a power.
23. An integer or other key indicating the location of data, e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
    especially
24. A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
25. The number of cosets that exist.
26. A prologue indicating what follows.
    obsolete

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Examples

“The index of a book lists words or expressions and the pages of the book upon which they are to be found.”

“He isn't able to find the index of the book.”

“Tastes are the Indexes of the different Qualities of Plants.”

“His son's empty guffaws […] struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.”

“Their use of these words as epithets is an index of an appallingly low level of feminist awareness.”

“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.”

“The index of 2ℤ in ℤ is 2.”

“Ay me, what act, that roars so loud and thunders in the index?”

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