indexing

3 definitions • 3 examples

present participle of

to prepare an index for a book or collection, or arrange it in an index:

Our computer indexes several thousand new records every second.

The book contains a lot of information, but it's not very well indexed.

to change a system of numbers according to each other or a fixed standard:

be indexed to/in line with Living expenses will be indexed to/in line with inflation (= to take inflation into consideration).