Index
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Index may refer to:
Library and information science
Business
- Index (retailer), a defunct UK catalogue retailer formerly owned by the Littlewoods group and known as Littlewoods Index
- INDEXINDEXINDEX, an acronym for Information through Disguised Experimentation is an annual market research fair conducted by the students of IIM-Lucknow. Students create games and various other simulated environments, to capture consumers’ subconscious thoughts. This innovative method of market research...
, a market research fair in Lucknow, India - Index fundIndex fundAn index fund or index tracker is a collective investment scheme that aims to replicate the movements of an index of a specific financial market, or a set of rules of ownership that are held constant, regardless of market conditions.-Tracking:Tracking can be achieved by trying to hold all of the...
, a collective investment scheme - Stock market indexStock market indexA stock market index is a method of measuring a section of the stock market. Many indices are cited by news or financial services firms and are used as benchmarks, to measure the performance of portfolios such as mutual funds....
, a statistical average of prices of securities
Publishing
- Bibliographic indexBibliographic indexA bibliographic index is a bibliography, an aid to search the literature of, for example, an academic field or discipline , to works of a specific literary form or published in a specific format , or to the analyzed contents of a serial publication...
, a regularly updated print periodical publication that lists articles, books, and/or other information items, usually within a particular discipline - Index (publishing)Index (publishing)An index is a list of words or phrases and associated pointers to where useful material relating to that heading can be found in a document...
, a detailed list, usually arranged alphabetically, of the specific information in a publication - Index (typography)Index (typography)The symbol is a punctuation mark, called an index, manicule or fist. Though rare today, this symbol was in common use between the 12th and 18th centuries in the margins of books, and was formerly included in lists of standard punctuation marks...
, a largely obsolete punctuation mark - Index cardIndex cardAn index card consists of heavy paper stock cut to a standard size, used for recording and storing small amounts of discrete data. It was invented by Carl Linnaeus, around 1760....
s in a rolodex or old library card catalog, early and mid 20th century technologies for maintaining such lists - Germany's List of Media Harmful to Young People, colloquially known as The Index, published by the Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende MedienBundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende MedienThe Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons is an upper-level German federal agency subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. It is responsible for examining media works allegedly harmful to young people and entering these onto an...
- Index Librorum ProhibitorumIndex Librorum ProhibitorumThe Index Librorum Prohibitorum was a list of publications prohibited by the Catholic Church. A first version was promulgated by Pope Paul IV in 1559, and a revised and somewhat relaxed form was authorized at the Council of Trent...
, a list of publications which the Catholic Church censored - Index MagazineIndex MagazineIndex Magazine was a prominent New York City based publication for art and culture. It was created by Peter Halley and Bob Nickas in 1996. The publication featured a mix of interviews with famous arty folks like Björk with not so-famous New York personalities like Queen Itchie or Ducky Doolittle.It...
, a New York City-based publication for art and culture - index.huIndex.huIndex.hu is one of the most popular Hungarian language internet portals. The editor-in-chief and founder of the site was András Nyírő. From 2000 until the 30rd of September 2011 the editor-in-chief was Péter Uj.-Founding:...
, a Hungarian-language news and community portal - Indexed (cartoon), a Web cartoon by Jessica HagyJessica HagyJessica Hagy is known for the online cartoon Indexed which is a collection of charts and diagrams hand drawn on 3x5 index cards and organized into a blog format. She has compiled her cartoons into a book called Indexed. The cartoon has also appeared in Freakonomics, Plenty, Good Magazine, and...
- The Index, the student newspaper of Kalamazoo CollegeKalamazoo CollegeKalamazoo College, also known as K College or simply K, is a private liberal arts college in Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1833, the college is among the 100 oldest in the country. Today, it produces more Peace Corps volunteers per capita than any other U.S...
- The Index (journal), a European propaganda journal created by Henry HotzeHenry HotzeHenry Hotze was a Swiss-born propagandist for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...
to support the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War - Thumb indexThumb indexA thumb index, also called a cut-in index, is a round cut-out in the pages of a dictionary, encyclopedia, or other alphabetized reference work, used to locate entries starting at a particular letter...
, a round cut-out in the pages of a publication - Toaru Majutsu no Index, a Japanese light novel, manga, and anime series
- Truman State University IndexTruman State University IndexThe Truman State University Index is a weekly student newspaper distributed at Truman State University and throughout the Kirksville, Missouri community. The publication is entirely student-run and funded mostly through its own advertising revenue...
, the weekly student newspaper
Computer science
- BitTorrent indexBitTorrent indexA BitTorrent index is a list of .torrent files , managed by a website, that is available for searching files to download through BitTorrent protocol. It should be differentiated from a BitTorrent tracker, which merely coordinates communication between peers attempting to download the payload of the...
, a list of .torrent files available for searches - Index (computer science), either an integer which identifies an array element, or a data structure which enables fast lookup
- Index (database)Index (database)A database index is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database table at the cost of slower writes and increased storage space...
, a feature in a computerized database which allows quick access to the rows in a table - Index (search engine)Index (search engine)Search engine indexing collects, parses, and stores data to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval. Index design incorporates interdisciplinary concepts from linguistics, cognitive psychology, mathematics, informatics, physics, and computer science...
, for supporting information retrieval in search engines - Indexed colorIndexed colorIn computing, indexed color is a technique to manage digital images' colors in a limited fashion, in order to save computer memory and file storage, while speeding up display refresh and file transfers...
- Subject indexingSubject indexingSubject indexing is the act of describing or classifying a document by index terms or other symbols in order to indicate what the document is about, to summarize its content or to increase its findability. In other words, it is about identifying and describing the subject of documents...
, describing the content of a document by keywords - Webserver directory indexWebserver directory indexWhen an HTTP client requests a URL that points to a directory structure instead of an actual Web page within the directory, the Web server will generally serve a general page, which is often referred to as a main or "index" page....
, a default or index web page in a directory on a web server, such as index.html
Economics
- Index (economics)Index (economics)In economics and finance, an index is a statistical measure of changes in a representative group of individual data points. These data may be derived from any number of sources, including company performance, prices, productivity, and employment. Economic indices track economic health from...
, a single number calculated from an array of prices and quantities- Price indexPrice indexA price index is a normalized average of prices for a given class of goods or services in a given region, during a given interval of time...
, a typical price for some good or service
- Price index
Geography
- Index, New York, a hamlet in the County and Town of Otsego, New YorkOtsego, New YorkOtsego is a town in Otsego County, New York, United States. The population was 3,904 at the 2000 census. The town is named after a lake on its border.The Town of Otsego is in the north central part of the county.- History :...
, United States - Index, WashingtonIndex, WashingtonIndex is a town in Snohomish County, Washington, United States. The population was 178 at the 2010 census.-History:Prior to settlement by westerners, the Skykomish Indians lived in the area between Sultan and Index...
, a town in Snohomish County, Washington, United States
Library and information scienceLibrary and information scienceLibrary and information science is a merging of the two fields library science and information science...
- Back-of-the-book indexBack-of-the-book index-Introduction:A back-of-the-book index is a collection of entries - often alphabetically arranged - which are made in order to allow users to locate information in a given book ....
- Bibliographic indexBibliographic indexA bibliographic index is a bibliography, an aid to search the literature of, for example, an academic field or discipline , to works of a specific literary form or published in a specific format , or to the analyzed contents of a serial publication...
, a regularly updated print periodical publication that lists articles, books, and/or other information items, - Index (publishing)Index (publishing)An index is a list of words or phrases and associated pointers to where useful material relating to that heading can be found in a document...
, a detailed list, usually arranged alphabetically, of the specific information in a publication - Subject indexingSubject indexingSubject indexing is the act of describing or classifying a document by index terms or other symbols in order to indicate what the document is about, to summarize its content or to increase its findability. In other words, it is about identifying and describing the subject of documents...
, describing the content of a document by keywords
Linguistics
- IndexicalityIndexicalityIn linguistics and in philosophy of language, an indexical behavior or utterance points to some state of affairs. For example, I refers to whoever is speaking; now refers to the time at which that word is uttered; and here refers to the place of utterance...
, in linguistics, the variation of meaning of an utterance according to certain features of the context in which it is uttered
Mathematics
- In mathematics, an exponent (used in Australian schooling)
- Index (mathematics)Index (mathematics)The word index is used in variety of senses in mathematics.- General :* In perhaps the most frequent sense, an index is a number or other symbol that indicates the location of a variable in a list or array of numbers or other mathematical objects. This type of index is usually written as a...
, for various meanings of the word in mathematics
Mechanics
- Indexing (motion)Indexing (motion)Indexing in reference to motion is moving into a new position or location quickly and easily but also precisely. After a machine part has been indexed, its location is known to within a few hundredths of a millimeter , or often even to within a few thousandths of a millimeter , despite the fact...
, a kind of motion in many areas of mechanical engineering and machining
Other usages
- Index fingerIndex fingerThe index finger, , is the first finger and the second digit of a human hand. It is located between the first and third digits, between the thumb and the middle finger...
, the second digit of a human hand - Index:Index:INDEX: is a Denmark-based nonprofit organization which works towards promoting designs aimed at the improvement of the life of people worldwide, both in developed and developing countries....
a Denmark nonprofit organization which promotes Design for Life - Index VenturesIndex VenturesIndex Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in Geneva, Switzerland, with offices in London, Jersey, and starting in 2011, Silcon Valley. The firm was founded in 1996 by Neil Rimer and Giuseppe Zocco. Since its inception, the firm has raised four main venture funds and a growth...
, a venture capital investment firm based in Switzerland - The Index, an item on a halo megastructureHalo (megastructure)Halos are fictional megastructures and superweapons in the Halo video game series. They are referred to as "Installations" by their AI monitors, and are collectively referred to as "the Array" by the installations' creators, the Forerunners...
in the Halo series of video games - The Index (Dubai), a skyscraper in Dubai