Index vs. Metric
Indexnoun
An alphabetical listing of items and their location.
Indexnoun
The index finger; the forefinger.
Indexnoun
A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
Indexnoun
(printing) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.
Indexnoun
That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
Indexnoun
A sign; an indication; a token.
Indexnoun
(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.
Indexnoun
(economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
Indexnoun
(science) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
Indexnoun
(mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
Indexnoun
An integer or other key indicating the location of data e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
Indexnoun
A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
Indexnoun
(obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
Indexverb
(transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
Indexverb
To inventory, to take stock.
Indexverb
To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
Indexnoun
That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses; as, the increasing unemployment rate is an index of how much the economy has slowed.
Indexnoun
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 or other form of pointer on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument.
Indexnoun
A table for facilitating reference to topics, names, and the like, in a book, usually giving the page on which a particular word or topic may be found; - usually alphabetical in arrangement, and printed at the end of the volume. Typically found only in non-fiction books.
Indexnoun
A prologue indicating what follows.
Indexnoun
The second finger, that next to the pollex (thumb), in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger.
Indexnoun
The figure or letter which shows the power or root of a quantity; the exponent.
Indexnoun
The ratio, or formula expressing the ratio, of one dimension of a thing to another dimension; as, the vertical index of the cranium.
Indexnoun
A number providing a measure of some quantity derived by a formula, usually a form of averaging, from multiple quantities; - used mostly in economics; as, the index of leading indicators; the index of industrial production; the consumer price index. See, for example, the consumer price index.
Indexnoun
A file containing a table with the addresses of data items, arranged for rapid and convenient search for the addresses.
Indexnoun
A number which serves as a label for a data item and also represents the address of a data item within a table or array.
Indexnoun
The Index prohibitorius, a catalogue of books which are forbidden by the church to be read; also called Index of forbidden books and Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
Indexverb
To provide with an index or table of references; to put into an index; as, to index a book, or its contents.
Indexverb
To adjust (wages, prices, taxes, etc.) automatically so as to compensate for changes in prices, usually as measured by the consumer price index or other economic measure. Its purpose is usually to copensate for inflation.
Indexverb
To insert (a word, name, file folder, etc.) into an index or into an indexed arrangement; as, to index a contract under its date of signing.
Indexnoun
a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number
Indexnoun
a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time
Indexnoun
a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
Indexnoun
an alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed
Indexnoun
the finger next to the thumb
Indexverb
list in an index
Indexverb
provide with an index;
Indexverb
adjust through indexation;
Metricadjective
of or relating to the metric system of measurement
Metricadjective
(music) of or relating to the meter of a piece of music.
Metricadjective
of or relating to distance
Metricnoun
A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering)
Metricnoun
(mathematics) A measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "non-negativity": d(x,y) \ge 0 , (2) "identity of indiscernibles": d(x,y) = 0 \mbox{ iff } x=y , (2) "symmetry": d(x,y) = d(y,x) , and (3) "triangle inequality": d(x,y) \le d(x,z) + d(z,y) .
Metricnoun
(mathematics) a metric tensor
Metricnoun
abbreviation of metric system
Metricverb
To measure or analyse statistical data concerning the quality or effectiveness of a process.
Metricadjective
Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.
Metricadjective
Of or pertaining to the meter as a standard of measurement; of or pertaining to the decimal system of measurement of which a meter is the unit; as, the metric system; a metric measurement.
Metricnoun
a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them
Metricnoun
a decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds);
Metricnoun
a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic
Metricadjective
based on the meter as a standard of measurement;
Metricadjective
the rhythmic arrangement of syllables
