英语词汇“indexings”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

index /inˈdeks/

noun

usu

inˈdexes

indices

The forefinger (also inˈdex-finger), or the corresponding digit in animals

A pointer or hand on a dial or scale, etc

A moving arm, as on a surveying instrument

The gnomon of a sundial

The finger of a fingerpost

A figure of a pointing hand, used to draw attention (printing)

The nose (old slang)

Anything giving an indication

A table of contents or other preliminary matter in a book (obsolete)

Hence a preface, prologue, introduction (Shakespeare; figurative)

An alphabetical register of subjects dealt with in the text of a book, etc, usu located at the end, with page or folio references

A similar list of other things

A list of prohibited books

A direct, or indication of the first notes of the next page or line (music; obsolete)

A symbol denoting a power (mathematics)

A number, commonly a ratio, expressing some relation (as refractive index, the ratio of sines of angles of incidence and refraction or cranial index, the breadth of a skull as a percentage of its length)

A numerical scale showing the relative changes in the cost of living, wages, etc, with reference to some predetermined base level

The reciprocal of intercept with parameter as unit (crystallography)

transitive verb

To provide with or place in an index

To link to an index, index-link

ORIGIN: L index, indicis, from indicāre to show

indexˈal adjective

indexāˈtion or inˈdexing noun

A system by which wages, rates of interest, etc are directly linked (index-linkedˈ) to changes in the cost of living index

inˈdexer noun

indexˈical adjective

inˈdexless adjective

index auctorum noun (Latin)

Index of authors

index case noun (medicine)

The first identified case of a disease

Index Expurgatorius noun (Latin; RC)

Formerly, a list of books from which certain passages must be expurged before the books may be read by Roman Catholics

index fossil noun

A fossil species that characterizes a particular geological horizon

index fund noun

An investment fund that imitates the composition of a particular stock market index

index learning noun

Superficial knowledge gleaned from book indexes

Index Librorum Prohibitorum noun (Latin; RC)

(until 1966) a list of books prohibited to Roman Catholic readers

index-linkˈ transitive verb

index-linkˈing noun

Indexation

index locorum noun (Latin)

An index of places

index mineral noun (geology)

A mineral whose appearance marks a particular grade of metamorphism in progressive regional metamorphism

index number noun

A figure showing periodic movement up or down of a variable compared with another figure (usu 100) taken as a standard

index rerum noun (Latin)

An index of matters or subjects
A reference notebook

inˈdex-tracking adjective

(of a fund) aiming to follow a stock exchange index

index verborum noun (Latin)

An index of words