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indexible, a.|ɪnˈdɛksɪb(ə)l, ˈɪndɛks-| Also -able. [f. index v. + -ible, -able.] Capable of being indexed.
1951Industrial Equipment News Dec. 100 (caption) Indexable Kennametal tip has 4 cutting edges. 1959C. V. L. Smith Electronic Digital Computers ii. 45 Most type B instructions are ‘indexable’. This means that, when any such instruction is executed, the address actually referred to is the address given decreased by the contents of the index register specified by the tag bits. 1966C. J. Sippl Computer Dict. & Handbk. 145/2 Index register... Used with indexible instruction addresses during execution. 1971Computers & Humanities VI. 68 By ‘indexible’ we mean [to denote] a character string that..is likely to be used as a criterion for selective retrieval and/or sorting. |