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Index

noun

(pl. E. indexes, L. indices)

A numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number.

A number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time. Synonyms: index number, indicant, indicator.

A mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself. Synonyms: exponent, power.

An alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed.

The finger next to the thumb. Synonyms: forefinger, index finger.

verb

(past & past part. indexed; pres. part. indexing)

List in an index.

Provide with an index.

Adjust through indexation.

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... notion of class can be held up as a tendency. Those who have fallen into the traps of the bureaucrats and have given way to the flattery or to the corruption of the bourgeoisie can be listed and put upon the index. Even working-class political action can be assailed as never before, because it now exists for the first time in history, and its every weakness is known. Moreover, there are the slowness of movement and the seemingly increasing tameness of the multitude. All these incidents in the growth ...

— Violence and the Labor Movement • Robert Hunter

... straight enough beneath such skillful eyes. Finally, he turned to a small locked ledger, of which the key was attached to Roden's watch-chain, who came forward and unlocked the book. Mr. Wade turned to the index at the beginning of the volume, found a certain account, and opened the book there. At the sight of the figures he raised his eyebrow and glanced up ...

— Roden's Corner • Henry Seton Merriman

... Museum and the College of Arms contain fine collections of Heralds' Visitations, and Burke's Landed Gentry and Dugdale's Baronage are the chief sources of information. Old wills will yield much information, many of which are in course of publication by the Index Society, and county archaeolgical journals; and Somerset House and many diocesan registries contain the original documents. The Historical Manuscripts Commission has published many volumes of borough records which are of great service, ...

— English Villages • P. H. Ditchfield

... add to Mr. Cooke's criticism these two remarks: First, that I have found it impossible to know under which of his divisions to look for many of the poems I was in search of; and as, in the earlier copies at least, there was no paged index where each author's pieces were collected together, one had to hunt up his fragments with no little loss of time and patience, under various heads, "imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris." The ...

— Ralph Waldo Emerson • Oliver Wendell Holmes

... I. (1825) until the death of Alexander III. (1894). The third and concluding volume will deal with the reign of Nicholas II., the last of the Romanovs, and will also contain the bibliographical apparatus, the maps, the index, and other supplementary material. This division will undoubtedly recommend itself to the reader. The next volume is partly in type, and will follow as ...

— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow

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