"subject indexing" meaning in English

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        "The act of describing a document by index terms to indicate what the document is about or to summarize its content, the index terms often coming from a controlled vocabulary."
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        "(information science) The act of describing a document by index terms to indicate what the document is about or to summarize its content, the index terms often coming from a controlled vocabulary."
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "act of describing a document by index terms",
          "word": "asiasanoitus"
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        "subject indexing"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "The act of describing a document by index terms to indicate what the document is about or to summarize its content, the index terms often coming from a controlled vocabulary."
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          "information science",
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        "(information science) The act of describing a document by index terms to indicate what the document is about or to summarize its content, the index terms often coming from a controlled vocabulary."
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      "sense": "act of describing a document by index terms",
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