indexing

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 2.59 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of index
2. noun The process by which something is indexed.

   Minimizing the number of indexings will make the algorithm more efficient.

3. noun A system used to assign indexes.

   In zero-based indexing, array variables in a computer program are numbered upwards from zero.

Similar words

indicator indicant exponent power index finger forefinger index number cataloguing catalogue categorization

Often followed by

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Word family

index indexed indexes indexings