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indication
English
Etymology
From Old French indication, from Latin indic?ti? (“a showing, indicating the value of something; valuation”), from indic? (“point out, indicate, show; value”); see indicate; confer French indication, Spanish indicación, Italian indicazione.Morphologically indicate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?nd??ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
indication (countable and uncountable, plural indications)
- Act of pointing out or indicating.
- That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence.
- September 9, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian volume 156
- The frequent stops they make in the most convenient places are plain indications of their weariness.
- September 9, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian volume 156
- Discovery made; information.
- (obsolete) Explanation; display. (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- (medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.
- (finance) An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.
Related terms
- index
- indicate
- indicator
- indicative
Translations
Further reading
- indication in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- indication in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Latin indic?ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.di.ka.sj??/
Noun
indication f (plural indications)
- direction, instruction
- indication, sign
- indication, information
- a hint
Related terms
- indiquer
Further reading
- “indication” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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index
- For Wiktionary's indexes, see Wiktionary:Index
English
Etymology
From Latin index (“a discoverer, informer, spy; of things, an indicator, the forefinger, a title, superscription”), from indic? (“point out, show”); see indicate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nd?ks/
Noun
index (plural indexes or indices or (obsolete, in use in the 17th century) index's)
- An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
- The index finger; the forefinger.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:index finger
- A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
- (typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
- Synonym: manicule
- That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
- 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments
- Tastes are the Indexes of the different Qualities of Plants.
- 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments
- A sign; an indication; a token.
- 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Misadventures of John Nicholson
- His son's empty guffaws […] struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.
- 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Misadventures of John Nicholson
- (linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
- (economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
- (sciences) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
- (mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
- (computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
- (computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
- (obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
- c. 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, III, 4
- Ay me, what act, that roars so loud and thunders in the index?
- c. 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, III, 4
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- (alphabetical listing): table of contents
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “index”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Verb
index (third-person singular simple present indexes, present participle indexing, simple past and past participle indexed)
- (transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
- To inventory, to take stock.
- (chiefly economics) To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
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. - (linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
- (computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.
Derived terms
- indexer
Translations
Further reading
- index in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- index in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- nixed, xenid
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??nd?ks]
Noun
index m
- index (alphabetical listing of items and their location)
- (economics) index
- index spot?ebitelských cen — consumer price index
- (computing, databases) index (a data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table)
Synonyms
- (alphabetical listing): rejst?ík
Related terms
- See dikce
- indexace
- indexový
- indexovat
- indexování
- indicie
- indikace
- indikátor
- indikovat
Further reading
- index in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- index in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch index, from Latin index.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n.d?ks/
- Hyphenation: in?dex
Noun
index m (plural indexen or indices, diminutive indexje n)
- index (list)
- index (number or coefficient representing various relations)
- (medicine, anatomy) index finger
- Synonym: wijsvinger
Derived terms
- brekingsindex
- prijsindex
Related terms
- indexatie
- indexeren
- indicator
- indiceren
French
Etymology
From Latin index (“pointer, indicator”), from indic? (“point out, show”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.d?ks/
Noun
index m (plural index)
- index
- forefinger
- The welcome page of a web site, typically index.html, index.htm or index.php
Derived terms
- mettre à l'index
Further reading
- “index” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin index.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?ind?ks]
- Hyphenation: in?dex
- Rhymes: -?ks
Noun
index (plural indexek)
- (automotive) turn signal (US), indicator (UK) (each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change)
- Synonym: irányjelz?
- pointer, hand, indicator (a needle or dial on a device)
- Synonyms: mutató, kar
- (higher education) transcript, report card, course report (in higher education)
- Synonym: leckekönyv
- Coordinate term: (in lower education) ellen?rz?
- index (an alphabetical listing of items and their location, usually at the end of publications)
- Synonyms: névmutató, tárgymutató, szómutató
- ban, blacklist (a list of books that was banned)
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- index in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Latin
Etymology
From indic? (“point out, indicate, show”), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + dic? (“indicate; dedicate; set apart”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?in.deks/, [??n?d??ks?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?in.deks/, [?in?d??ks]
Noun
index m or f (genitive indicis); third declension
- A pointer, indicator.
- The index finger, forefinger.
- Synonym: digitus sal?t?ris
- (of books) An index, list, catalogue, table, summary, digest.
- (of books) A title, superscription.
- A sign, indication, proof, mark, token, index.
- An informer, discoverer, director, talebearer, guide, witness, betrayer, spy.
- (of paintings or statues) An inscription.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
References
- index in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- index in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- index in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- index in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- index in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- index in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- index in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin index
Noun
index n (plural indexuri)
- index
Declension
Swedish
Noun
index n
- an index
Declension
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