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Definition of index

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Index (n.) That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; -- called also fist..

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Indices :: Indices (n. pl.) See Index.

Fist :: Fist (n.) the index mark [/], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows..

Orthognathous :: Orthognathous (a.) Having the front of the head, or the skull, nearly perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; -- opposed to prognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic..

Perambulator :: Perambulator (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer..

Indice :: Indice (n.) Index; indication.

Index :: Index (n.) That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses..

Microseme :: Microseme (a.) Having the orbital index relatively small; having the orbits broad transversely; -- opposed to megaseme.

Subscript :: Subscript (a.) Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See under Iota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters (suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other letters to distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. See Suffix, n., 2, and Subindex..

Concordance :: Concordance (n.) A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book.

Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) A point so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane..

Gnomon :: Gnomon (n.) The index of the hour circle of a globe.

Deadbeat :: Deadbeat (a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.

Ablution :: Ablution (n.) A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest..

Traverser :: Traverser (n.) One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like..

Index :: Index (n.) The second digit, that next pollex, in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger..

Indexes :: Indexes (pl. ) of Inde.

Indexically :: Indexically (adv.) In the manner of an index.

Index :: Index (n.) The figure or letter which shows the power or root of a quantity; the exponent.

Subindicate :: Subindex (n.) A number or mark placed opposite the lower part of a letter or symbol to distinguish the symbol; thus, a0, b1, c2, xn, have 0, 1, 2, and n as subindices..

Escutcheon :: Escutcheon (n.) A marking upon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It is esteemed an index of milking qualities..