INDEXING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indexing mean? 

• INDEXING (noun)
  The noun INDEXING has 1 sense:

1. the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve

  Familiarity information: INDEXING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDEXING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("indexing" is a kind of...):

assortment; categorisation; categorization; classification; compartmentalisation; compartmentalization (the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type)

Derivation:

index (provide with an index)

 Context examples 

So spoke Sherlock Holmes and turned back to the great scrapbook in which he was arranging and indexing some of his recent material.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A phonetic algorithm for indexing words based on the way they sound.

(Metaphone, NCI Thesaurus)

This is a quantifying property of a matrix that gives the total number of indexing values in each of its directions.

(Matrix Size, NCI Thesaurus)

Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the other was deep in one of Clark Russell’s fine sea-stories until the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of the sea waves.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The first day Holmes had spent in cross-indexing his huge book of references.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)