0 present participle of index
1 to prepare an index for a book or collection, or arrange it in an index:
Our computer indexes several thousand new records every second.
The book contains a lot of information, but it's not very well indexed.
2 to change a system of numbers according to each other or a fixed standard:
Living expenses will be indexed to/in line with inflation (= to take inflation into consideration).
Using a variety of methods, the working group found that the existing databases are diverse in coverage, structure, search options, indexing, and frequency of updating.
The main difficulty in indexing grains is that rachis internodes can be very short.
The aim of this method is to concentrate the votes on the indexing classes and then on the identified models.
While domain reduction ensuring arc- or hyperarc consistency is relatively simple for indexing over discrete variables, the case of continuous variables is much less explored.
It concludes that indexing with respect to projections is technically problematic.
Frame-based cases often require knowledge-intensive indexing and matching algorithms.
None of our included papers was from before 1988, and so no historical searching prior to indexing in the electronic databases was necessary.
First, indexing is not really arbitrary but is stimulus-driven.
