Index
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Index can be defined as:
- Index in the sense of an ordered list has the plural form indexes.
- Index in the sense of a number or variable has the plural indices.
Index can also have the following meanings:
- The city -- Index, Washington, United States
- Publishing purposes; see index (publishing)
- Information technology (IT) purposes; see index (information technology) or index (database)
- The default page served by a web server, such as index.html or index.htm.
- Mathematics; see index (mathematics)
- Lingusitics; see Indexicality
- Economics and finance; see index (economics)
- In Roman Catholicism the Index is the Index Librorum Prohibitorum created in 1559, the list of books that obedient Catholics were forbidden to read.
- This meaning has been extended to book censorship by some political regimes.
