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indexer

indexer

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A person who makes lists of topics to help find things in books or databases
  • noun
  • /ˈɪndɛksər/
translation icon : indexador
  • The SRT-422 E-Beam Source Indexer.

Examples

  • This happens when I can't find the family in the next census using parents or the surname has been butchered by the enumerator or indexer, or the children are being raised by others.

    Blog text (15)
  • The third section features microstepping, ministepping, and linear step motor systems and indexers, along with UL and CE compliant systems.

    Academic text (1997)
  • This includes a cover designer, design person, proper editor, indexer, and proofreader.

    Blog text (24)
  • If no one is able to pay the editors, graphic artists, indexers, illustrators, translators, and so on who work on books, they won't work either.

    Blog text (25)
  • However, an analysis of the "publication type" codes assigned by Clearinghouse indexers to documents and journal articles beginning in 1974 and 1979, respectively, provides a rough overview.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Firstly, although MeSH keywords are decided by an indexer reading the whole article, and therefore should be more representative of its contents than the title or abstract, the precision of MeSH indexing is variable.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges (a collector, indexer, and disseminator of research reports) has added 15,000 documents to its collection since the late 1960s (Cohen & Brawer, 1996).

    Academic text (1997)
  • This may be partly because indexers have little clinical training, partly because about half the terms doctors use in clinical notes (and thus probably in journal papers) have no corresponding MeSH equivalent, and partly because a semantically limited language such as MeSH cannot always express the meaning of the text.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Manufacturers of innovative vacuum products including: Deposition Monitors & Controllers, Crystals, Pocket Indexers, Sensor heads, Feedthroughs, Oscillators, and Piezoelectric Valves.

    Academic text (2004)
  • The indexer organized the entire database, making it easier for researchers to find the information they needed.

Surface Forms

indexer singular
indexers plural

Morphology

indexer = index (transparent) = index + er

Agentive formation from the verb 'index' with the productive suffix '-er', yielding a person or tool that performs indexing.

Etymology

Indexer comes from index, a word that meant a 'pointer' or a 'list', like the index finger that points. So an indexer is a person who makes those lists to help readers or researchers find topics quickly.