(indices, ~es, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
Note: The usual plural is '~es', but the form 'indices' can be used for meaning 1.
1.
An ~ 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 ~.
...economic indices.
N-COUNT: with supp
2.
An ~ 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 ~.
N-COUNT
3.
If you ~ a book or a collection of information, you make an alphabetical list of the items in it.
This vast archive has been ~ed and made accessible to researchers...
She’s ~ed the book by author, by age, and by illustrator.
VERB: be V-ed, V n
4.
If a quantity or value is ~ed 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 ~ed to inflation.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed to n
5.
see also card ~