index

index (alphabetical listing of items and their location)

index spotřebitelských cen

(computing, databases) index (a data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table)

index (nominative singular)
indexy (nominative plural)
indexu (genitive singular)
indexů (genitive plural)
indexu (dative singular)
indexům (dative plural)
index (accusative singular)
indexy (accusative plural)
indexe (singular vocative)
indexy (plural vocative)
indexu (locative singular)
indexech (locative plural)
indexem (instrumental singular)
indexy (instrumental plural)


index

index (number or coefficient representing various relations)

nl-noun

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

indexen (plural)
indices (plural)
indexje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: indèks

From Middle Dutch index, from Latin index.


index

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

An alphabetical listing of items and their location.

A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.

(typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.

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:

That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.

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:

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:

(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.

(economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.

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:

(sciences) A number representing a property or ratio; a coefficient.

(mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.

(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.

(computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.

The index of 2ℤ in ℤ is 2.

(algebra, index of a subgroup) The number of cosets that exist.

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]:

(obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.

en-noun

index (plural indexes or indices or (obsolete, in use in the 17th century) index's)

indexes (plural)
indices (plural)
index's (obsolete plural)

⇒ Chinese: 引得 (yǐndé)

→ Japanese: インデックス (indekkusu)

merkki

that which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses

индекс

economics: single number calculated from an array of prices or quantities

коефициент

science: number representing a property or ratio

степенен показател

mathematics: raised suffix indicating a power

индекс

programming: key indicating location of data

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


index

MySQL does not index short words and common words.

(transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.

(chiefly economics) To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.

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:

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:

(linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.

(computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(mechanical engineering, transitive) To use a mechanism to move an object to a precise location.

en-verb

index (third-person singular simple present indexes, present participle indexing, simple past and past participle indexed)

indexes (present singular third-person)
indexing (participle present)
indexed (participle past)
indexed (past)


index

the welcome page of a web site, typically index.html, index.htm or index.php

→ Persian: اندکس (andeks)

→ Turkish: endeks, indeks

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


index

(automotive) turn signal (US), indicator (UK) (each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change)

pointer, hand, indicator (a needle or dial on a device)

Coordinate term: (in lower education) ellenőrző

(higher education) transcript, report card, course report (in higher education)

index (an alphabetical listing of items and their location, usually at the end of publications)

ban, blacklist (a list of books that was banned)

indexek (plural)
index (nominative singular)
indexek (nominative plural)
indexet (accusative singular)
indexeket (accusative plural)
indexnek (dative singular)
indexeknek (dative plural)
indexszel (instrumental singular)
indexekkel (instrumental plural)
indexért (causal-final singular)
indexekért (causal-final plural)
indexszé (singular translative)
indexekké (plural translative)
indexig (singular terminative)
indexekig (plural terminative)
indexként (essive-formal singular)
indexekként (essive-formal plural)
indexben (inessive singular)
indexekben (inessive plural)
indexen (singular superessive)
indexeken (plural superessive)
indexnél (adessive singular)
indexeknél (adessive plural)
indexbe (illative singular)
indexekbe (illative plural)
indexre (singular sublative)
indexekre (plural sublative)
indexhez (allative singular)
indexekhez (allative plural)
indexből (elative singular)
indexekből (elative plural)
indexről (delative singular)
indexekről (delative plural)
indextől (ablative singular)
indexektől (ablative plural)
indexé (singular)
indexeké (plural)
indexéi (singular)
indexekéi (plural)
indexem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
indexeim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
indexed (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
indexeid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
indexe (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
indexei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
indexünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
indexeink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
indexetek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
indexeitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
indexük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
indexeik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


index

(of books) An index, list, catalogue, table, summary, digest.

A sign, indication, proof, mark, token, index.

An informer, discoverer, director, talebearer, guide, witness, betrayer, spy.

(of paintings or statues) An inscription.

la-noun

index m or f (genitive indicis); third declension

indicis (genitive)
index (nominative singular)
indicēs (nominative plural)
indicis (genitive singular)
indicum (genitive plural)
indicī (dative singular)
indicibus (dative plural)
indicem (accusative singular)
indicēs (accusative plural)
indice (ablative singular)
indicibus (ablative plural)
index (singular vocative)
indicēs (plural vocative)

Catalan: enze

→ Catalan: índex

→ Czech: index

→ Danish: indeks

desctree

→ English: index
⇒ Chinese: 引得 (yǐndé)
→ Japanese: インデックス (indekkusu)

→ Esperanto: indekso

→ French: index
→ Persian: اندکس (andeks)
→ Turkish: endeks, indeks

Galician: éndez, endego

→ Galician: índice

→ German: Index

→ Hungarian: index

Italian: endice

→ Italian: indice

→ Ladin: indesc

→ Macedonian: индекс (indeks)

→ Middle Dutch: index

Dutch: index
→ Indonesian: indèks

→ Norwegian Bokmål: indeks

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: indeks

→ Polish: indeks

→ Portuguese: índex, índice

→ Romanian: index, indice

→ Russian: и́ндекс (índeks)
→ Kazakh: индекс (indeks)

→ Serbo-Croatian: ѝндекс, ìndeks

Sicilian: ìnnici

→ Spanish: índex, índice

→ Swahili: index

→ Ukrainian: і́ндекс (índeks)

From in + the root of dīcere (“to indicate”) + -s. Compare iūdex.


index

indexuri (plural)
index (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
indexul (accusative definite nominative singular)
indexuri (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
indexurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
index (indefinite singular)
indexului (definite singular)
indexuri (indefinite plural)
indexurilor (definite plural)
indexule (singular vocative)
indexurilor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Latin index. Doublet of indice and indiciu.


index

index (indefinite nominative singular)
index (genitive indefinite singular)
indexet (definite nominative singular)
indexets (definite genitive singular)
index (indefinite nominative plural)
index (genitive indefinite plural)
indexen (definite nominative plural)
indexens (definite genitive plural)