Phrase Hound found 188 phrases and 25 compound words that contain index. The most common are listed below. Open index in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 188
- price indexA statistical estimate of the level of prices of some class of goods or services.
- refractive indexThe ratio of the speed of light in air or vacuum to that in another medium.
- Site index
- index caseThe first documented case in a disease epidemic within a population or the first case of interest in an epidemiological investigation: the case of patient zero (the index patient).
- index cardA piece of heavy paper stock used to record information to be stored in a card index or to supply the copy (content) from which to generate a book index.
- Index page
- index fingerThe forefinger.
- body mass indexA statistical measure of the weight of a person scaled according to height, used to estimate if a person is underweight or overweight. BMI units are defined as kg/m² ≈ 703*lb/in².
- card-indexTo create a card index, to index (something) using index cards.
- consumer price indexA statistical estimate of the level of prices of goods and services bought for consumption purposes by households.
- index termA term associated with particular documents in an index used for document retrieval; typically, a term that captures the essential meaning of a document.
- Retail Price IndexA measure of inflation based on the changing cost of a representative sample of retail goods and services. Calculated on a slightly different basis to the Consumer Price Index.
- h-indexAn author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and the citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar, based on a set of most cited papers and the number of citations in other publications.
- Mass index
- index registerA processor register (or an assigned memory location) used to point to operand addresses during the run of a program, useful for stepping through strings and arrays.
- heat indexA figure used by American meteorologists to describe the apparent heat felt by a person as the result of a combination of temperature and humidity.
- Back-of-the-book index
- Book Review Index
- C-list index
- City Index
- Education Index
- General index
- Group index
- Index group
- Index List
Compound words 25
- SoundexA phonetic algorithm for indexing names by their English pronunciation, based on the most probably significant consonants, so that a search for a misspelled name may find the desired one.
- RolodexA type of rotating file index used for storing addresses, especially in a work context.
- indexableThat can be indexed.
- SensexA stock market index of 30 well-established and financially sound companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange in India.
- memexA proposed computer system, implemented with electromechanical controls and microfilm equipment, that would permit a researcher to follow and annotate topics of interest, analogous to later hypertext technologies.
- reindexTo index again or anew.
- refidexAny street directory.
- misindexTo index incorrectly.
- overindexTo attempt to access an element beyond the bounds of (an array).
- glindexA combined glossary and index.