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Contents [hide] 1 Business 2 Publishing 3 Sciences 3.1 Biological sciences 3.2 Computer science 3.3 Economics 3.4 Geography 3.5 Library and information science 3.6 Linguistics 3.7 Mathematics 3.7.1 Algebra 3.7.2 Analysis 4 Technologies 4.1 Mechanics 4.2 Optics 5 Other usages [edit] Business Index (retailer), a defunct UK catalogue retailer formerly owned by the Littlew oods group and known as Littlewoods Index INDEX, a market research fair in Lucknow, India Index fund, a collective investment scheme Stock market index, a statistical average of prices of securities [edit] Publishing Bibliographic index, a regularly updated print periodical publication that list s articles, books, and/or other information items, usually within a particular d iscipline Index (publishing), a detailed list, usually arranged alphabetically, of the sp ecific information in a publication Index (typography), a largely obsolete punctuation mark Index cards in a rolodex or old library card catalog, early and mid 20th centur y technologies for maintaining such lists

Germany's List of Media Harmful to Young People, colloquially known as The Inde x, published by the Bundesprfstelle fr jugendgefhrdende Medien Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of publications which the Catholic Church c ensored Index Magazine, a New York City-based publication for art and culture index.hu, a Hungarian-language news and community portal Indexed (cartoon), a Web cartoon by Jessica Hagy The Index, the student newspaper of Kalamazoo College The Index (journal), a European propaganda journal created by Henry Hotze to su pport the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War Thumb index, a round cut-out in the pages of a publication Toaru Majutsu no Index, a Japanese light novel, manga, and anime series Truman State University Index, the weekly student newspaper [edit] Sciences A scale (social sciences) [edit] Biological sciences Diversity index a quantitative measure that increases when the number of types into which a set of entities has been classified increases, and obtains its maxi mum value for a given number of types when all types are represented by the same number of entities [edit] Computer science Lookup table, a data structure, usually an array or associative array, often us ed to replace a runtime computation with a simpler array indexing operation Array index, an integer pointer (into an array data structure) that identifies an element of the array A key in an associative array Database index, a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval oper ations on a database table Index mapping, mapping of raw data, used directly as in array index, for an arr ay Index register, a processor register used for modifying operand addresses durin g the run of a program The dataset maintained by search engine indexing Indexed color Indexed Sequential Access Method (ISAM), a method for indexing data for fast re trieval Subject indexing, describing the content of a document by keywords Web indexing (Internet indexing) Site map, a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users Webserver directory index, a default or index web page in a directory on a web server, such as index.html BitTorrent index, a list of .torrent files available for searches [edit] Economics Index (economics), a single number calculated from an array of prices and quant ities Price index, a typical price for some good or service [edit] Geography Index, New York, a hamlet in the County and Town of Otsego, New York, United St ates Index, Washington, a town in Snohomish County, Washington, United States [edit] Library and information science Back-of-the-book index Bibliographic index, a regularly updated print periodical publication that list s articles, books, and/or other information items,

Index (publishing), a detailed list, usually arranged alphabetically, of the sp ecific information in a publication Subject indexing, describing the content of a document by keywords [edit] Linguistics Indexicality, the variation of meaning of an utterance according to certain fea tures of the context in which it is uttered [edit] Mathematics A number or other symbol that indicates the location of a variable in an indexe d family or set such as a list or array of numbers or other mathematical objects , usually written as a subscript to the variable; e.g. in the list , the number is the index of the third element, . A numerical value attached to a mathematical object, such as those listed here under Algebra and Analysis [edit] Algebra Exponent The degree of an nth root The index of a subgroup is the number of a subgroup's left cosets (which is equ al to the number of its right cosets). The index of a linear map, is the dimension of the map's kernel minus the dimen sion of its cokernel. The index of a real quadratic form Q is defined (but not always consistently) a s p - q where Q can be written as a difference of p squared linear terms and q s quared linear terms. The index of a matrix is the least integer k = 0 such that rank(Ak+1) = rank(Ak ). [edit] Analysis The winding number of an oriented closed curve on a surface relative to a point on that surface; loosely speaking, the number of times the curve goes around th e point counter-clockwise The index of a vector field v at an isolated zero is the degree of the map , ta king points near the zero into the unit sphere. [edit] Technologies [edit] Mechanics Indexing (motion), a kind of motion in many areas of mechanical engineering and machining [edit] Optics Refractive index, a measure for optical properties of transparent materials. [edit] Other usages Index finger, the second digit of a human hand Index: a Denmark nonprofit organization which promotes Design for Life Index Ventures, a venture capital investment firm based in Switzerland The Index, an item on a halo megastructure in the Halo series of video games The Index (Dubai), a skyscraper in Dubai FamilySearch Indexing including indexing the US 1940 Census Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a character from Toaru Majutsu no Index, otherwise shortened to simply "Index".