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indexing

indexing

5 4.1
Organising documents and making a list so people can find them quickly
  • noun
  • /ˈɪndɛksɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : indexación
  • The librarian explained that indexing helps users quickly locate information in the library catalog.
  • indexing system
  • indexing services
  • indexing tool

So the episodic memory being implemented as an indexing over the other model that you're building.

Examples

  • The automation of all metadata harvesting and indexing processes also improves the timeliness of metadata availability.

    Academic text (2013)

  • And it makes indexing and making things get on indexed in Google so people can find your site much easier.

  • So this means that you can do indexing in constant time.

  • So now that we have indexing, let's use it to prove another lower bound.

  • Indexing is about to begin.

    Antidote (2021)

  • That allowed for consistent indexing across the metadata and easier, potentially easier access to the full text when someone had found a record.

  • Previously, engineers spent about three days creating a miscellaneous indexing tool unique to each job, Smith said.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Information skills: information access and retrieval, indexing, network navigation.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Many of these were MARC coding errors that would affect indexing.

    Academic text (2013)

  • When a publisher sends your article through to PubMed for indexing, they only send the title, the authors' names, the abstracts, and the keywords.

    Academic text (2016)

Synonyms

indexation
vsindexing
  • Specialized
6.1

Organizing documents so they are easy to find

is about classifying items and supplying a retrieval list

Antonyms

disorganization
  • US
7 3.8

A lack of order or system that makes things untidy

How Visible

indexing
  • Specialized
5 4.1
sandboxing
  • Jargon
6.5

Surface Forms

indexing singular
indexings plural

Morphology

indexing = index (transparent) = index + ing

This is a regular noun formed from the verb 'index' with '-ing', and the meaning follows directly from the action of making an index.

Etymology

Indexing comes from the Latin word index, which meant 'a pointer', much like a finger that points to where something is. So indexing is making lists or pointers to help you find items quickly.