index
Index (Latin for "index finger, index number"), plural indices or indexes , stands for:
- Register (reference work) , organized directory
- Key figure , comparative value
- Index (semiotics) , reference signs
- Database index , development of data stocks
- In computer science, a value specification for addressing an element, see field (data type) #Indices
- Index finger , a technical term in medicine
- Graduation on a dial
- ☞, as a symbol or punctuation mark, see index finger #Typography and EDP
in censorship
- Black list , colloquially a negative directory
- Index Librorum Prohibitorum , a defining Catholic index of forbidden books
- Directory of works classified as dangerous in Germany, see Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People
in mathematics:
- Index (group theory) , number of secondary classes
- mathematical numbering element, see index set (mathematics)
- Thickness of an equivalence relation, see equivalence relation # Amount of equivalence classes and index
- Index of a vector field, see Poincaré-Hopf theorem #Index of a vector field
- analytical index of a differential operator, see Fredholm operator
- topological invariant in function theory, see rotation number (mathematics)
- Signature of a bilinear form, see signature (linear algebra)
- a characteristic feature of a quadratic set in geometry
Facilities:
- Index - word and effect , collective of Swiss authors
- Index-Werke , German group of companies
- Index (discotheque) , discotheque in Schüttorf, Lower Saxony
- Index.hu , Hungarian news portal
geographical objects:
- Index (Washington) , a city in the United States
- Index Peak , mountain in Graham Land, Antarctica
- Index Point , headland on the Borchgrevink Coast of the Victoria Land, Antarctica
See also:
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title begins with an index
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title contains index
- Indexing (keywording)
Wiktionary: Index - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
