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Index (
pl. : indexes or indices ) may refer to:
Periodicals and news portals
Business enterprises and events
Places in the United States
Index, Arkansas , an unincorporated community
Index, Kentucky , an unincorporated community
Index, Missouri , a ghost town
Index, New York , a hamlet in Hartwick and Otsego, New York
Index, Virginia , an unincorporated community
Index, Washington , a town
Index, West Virginia , an unincorporated community
Publishing and library studies
Bibliographic index , a regularly updated publication that lists articles, books, or other information items
Citation index
The Index , colloquial name for Germany's List of Media Harmful to Young People , published by the
Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien
Index card , used for recording and storing small amounts of data
Index Librorum Prohibitorum , a list of publications which the Catholic Church censored
Index on Censorship , a publishing organization that campaigns for freedom of expression, or its magazine of the same name
Index (publishing) , an organized list of information in a publication
Index (typography) , a hand- or fist-shaped punctuation mark
Subject indexing , describing the content of a document by keywords
Thumb index , a round cut-out in the pages of a publication
Web indexing , Internet indexing
Science, technology, and mathematics
Index, a key in an
associative array
Index (typography) , a character in Unicode, its code is 132
Index, the dataset maintained by
search engine indexing
Array index , an integer pointer into an array data structure
BitTorrent index , a list of .torrent files available for searches
Database index , a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval
Index mapping of raw data for an array
Index register , a processor register used for modifying operand addresses during the run of a program
Indexed color , in computer imagery
Indexed Sequential Access Method (ISAM), used for indexing data for fast retrieval
Lookup table , a data structure used to store precomputed information
Site map , or site index, a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users
Web indexing , Internet indexing
Web server directory index , a default or index web page in a directory on a web server, such as index.html
Mathematics and statistics
Index, a number or other symbol that specifies an element of an
indexed family or set
Index, an element of an
index set
Index, the label of a summand in
Σ-notation of a summation
Index, the
winding number of an oriented closed curve on a surface relative to a point on that surface
Diversity index , a measure of distribution or variety in fields such as ecology or information science
Index of a vector field , an integer that helps to describe the behaviour of a vector field around an isolated zero
Other uses in science and technology
Dental indices , standardized scoring systems for tooth problems
Indexicality , in linguistics, the phenomenon of a sign pointing to some object in the context in which it occurs
Indexing (motion) , in mechanical engineering and machining, movement to a precisely known location
Refractive index , a measurement of how light propagates through a material
Valve Index , a virtual reality headset
Topics referred to by the same term