Index
Index (pl.: indexes or indices) may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Index (A Certain Magical Index), a character in the light novel series A Certain Magical Index
 - The Index, an item on the Halo Array in the Halo video game series
 
Periodicals and news portals
- Index Magazine, a publication for art and culture
 - Index.hr, a Croatian online newspaper
 - index.hu, a Hungarian-language news and community portal
 - The Index (Kalamazoo College), a student newspaper
 - The Index, an 1860s European propaganda journal created by Henry Hotze to support the Confederate States of America
 - Truman State University Index, a student newspaper
 
Other arts, entertainment and media
- The Index (band)
 - Indexed, a Web cartoon by Jessica Hagy
 - Index, album by Ana Mena
 
Business enterprises and events
- Index (retailer), a former UK catalogue retailer
 - INDEX, a market research fair in Lucknow, India
 - Index Corporation, a Japanese video game developer
 
Finance
- Index fund, a collective investment scheme
 - Stock market index, a statistical average of prices of selected securities
 
Places in the United States
- Index, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
 - Index, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
 - Index, Missouri, a ghost town
 - Index, New York, a hamlet in Hartwick and Otsego, New York
 - Index, Virginia, an unincorporated community
 - Index, Washington, a town
 - Index, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
 
Publishing and library studies
- Index (publishing), an organized list of information in a publication
 - Index (typography), a hand- or fist-shaped punctuation mark
 - Bibliographic index, a regularly updated publication that lists articles, books, or other information items
 - Citation index
 - The Index, colloquial name for The List of Media Harmful to Young People (Germany)
 - Index card, used for recording and storing small amounts of data
 - Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of publications which the Catholic Church censored
 - Index on Censorship, a publishing organization that campaigns for freedom of expression, or its magazine of the same name
 - Subject indexing, describing the content of a document by keywords
 - Thumb index, a round cut-out in the pages of a publication
 - Web indexing, Internet indexing
 
Science, technology, and mathematics
Computer science
- Index, a key in an associative array
 - Index (typography), a character in Unicode, its code is 132
 - Index, the dataset maintained by search engine indexing
 - Array index, an integer pointer into an array data structure
 - BitTorrent index, a list of .torrent files available for searches
 - Database index, a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval
 - Index mapping of raw data for an array
 - Index register, a processor register used for modifying operand addresses during the run of a program
 - Indexed color, in computer imagery
 - Indexed Sequential Access Method (ISAM), used for indexing data for fast retrieval
 - Lookup table, a data structure used to store precomputed information
 - Site map, or site index, a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users
 - Web indexing, Internet indexing
 - Web server directory index, a default or index web page in a directory on a web server, such as index.html
 
Economics
- Index (economics), a single number calculated from an array of prices and quantities 
- Price index, a typical price for some good or service
 
 
Mathematics and statistics
- Index, a number or other symbol that specifies an element of an indexed family or set
 - Index, an element of an index set
 - Index, the label of a summand in Σ-notation of a summation
 
Algebra
- Index of a subgroup, the number of a subgroup's left cosets
 - Index, the degree of an nth root
 - Index of a linear map, the dimension of the map's kernel minus the dimension of its cokernel
 - Index of a matrix
 - Index of a real quadratic form
 
Analysis
- Index, the winding number of an oriented closed curve on a surface relative to a point on that surface
 - Diversity index, a measure of distribution or variety in fields such as ecology or information science
 - Index of a vector field, an integer that helps to describe the behaviour of a vector field around an isolated zero
 
Number theory
- Index, or the discrete logarithm of a number
 
Statistics
- Index (statistics), a type of aggregate measure 
- Scale (social sciences), a method of reporting data in social sciences, sometimes called an index
 
 
Other uses in science and technology
- Dental indices, standardized scoring systems for tooth problems
 - Indexicality, in linguistics, the phenomenon of a sign pointing to some object in the context in which it occurs
 - Indexing (motion), in mechanical engineering and machining, movement to a precisely known location
 - Refractive index, a measurement of how light propagates through a material
 - Valve Index, a virtual reality headset
 
Other uses
- INDEX, earlier name for the Reimei satellite
 - Index:, a Danish nonprofit organization that promotes Design for Life
 - The Index (Dubai), a skyscraper
 - Index (crater), a Moon crater
 - In semiotics, an unintentional and non-arbitrary sign causally related to what it indicates, for example the smoke from a fire or the footprint of an animal.
 
See also
- Indexer (disambiguation)
 - All pages with titles beginning with Index
 - All pages with titles containing Index