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noun

indexing

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

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Six example sentences with indexing, each labelled with its topic.

  • Careful indexing turned a nine-hundred-page biography into something usable, since any reader can now find every mention of the war.

    Literature

  • Search felt instant only after overnight indexing finished, because the database no longer scans every row for each query.

    Technology

  • Two archivists spent a decade on the indexing of parish records, so a genealogist now finds a birth in seconds.

    History

  • Indexing forty years of negatives by date and place took a winter, and now any frame surfaces in a minute.

    Photography

  • The firm's indexing of its old case files by judge and issue lets a junior associate find a precedent before lunch.

    Law

  • Proper indexing of the label's tape archive means a producer can pull every take of one song from 1971.

    Music

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