transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪndeks ]
( indices, indexes, indexing, indexed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
Note: The usual plural is 'indexes', but the form 'indices' can be used for meaning 1.
1.
An index is a system by which changes in the value of something and the rate at which it changes can be recorded, measured, or interpreted.
...the UK retail price index.
...economic indices.
N-COUNT : with supp
2.
An index is an alphabetical list that is printed at the back of a book and tells you on which pages important topics are referred to.
There’s even a special subject index.
N-COUNT
3.
If you index a book or a collection of information, you make an alphabetical list of the items in it.
This vast archive has been indexed and made accessible to researchers...
She’s indexed the book by author, by age, and by illustrator.
VERB : be V-ed , V n
4.
If a quantity or value is indexed to another, a system is arranged so that it increases or decreases whenever the other one increases or decreases.
Minimum pensions and wages are to be indexed to inflation.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed to n
5.
see also card index