Index

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Index (pl.: indexes or indices) may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Index (A Certain Magical Index), a character in the light novel series A Certain Magical Index
The Index, an item on the Halo Array in the Halo video game series

Index Magazine, a publication for art and culture
Index.hr, a Croatian online newspaper
index.hu, a Hungarian-language news and community portal
The Index (Kalamazoo College), a student newspaper
The Index, an 1860s European propaganda journal created by Henry Hotze to support the Confederate States of America
Truman State University Index, a student newspaper

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

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

Index (economics), a single number calculated from an array of prices and quantities
- Price index, a typical price for some good or service

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 of a subgroup, the number of a subgroup's left cosets
Index, the degree of an nth root
Index of a linear map, the dimension of the map's kernel minus the dimension of its cokernel
Index of a matrix
Index of a real quadratic form

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

Index (statistics), a type of aggregate measure
- Scale (social sciences), a method of reporting data in social sciences, sometimes called an index

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