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Heck, they even penalize companies in their index with slow loading times.

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a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number

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noun

a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number

noun

a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time

noun

a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for index.

noun

a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number

noun

a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time

noun

a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself

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an alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed

noun

the finger next to the thumb

verb

list in an index

verb

provide with an index; "index the book"

verb

adjust through indexation; "The government indexes wages and prices"

Example sentences

Heck, they even penalize companies in their index with slow loading times.

I remember asking my interviewer whether I could use things like Google's index if I had a cool 20% idea, and he was like "Sure.

Although indexing is predicated on efficient markets, the higher the percentage of all investors who index, the more inefficient the markets become as fewer and fewer investors would be performing research and fundamental analysis of equities.

Your browser history was essentially a full index to the online Vim documentation; your Nano and Pico-using friends thought you were insane; your Emacs using friends begged you to change your mind; you paid actual money for a laminated copy of a Vim cheat sheet for easy reference.

I did a polite debunk of the idea that Google used Facebook shares in our web ranking at the conference, leading to this section in the 2011 blog post: "Rand pointed out that Google does have some access to Facebook data overall and set up a small-scale test to determine if Google would index content that was solely shared on Facebook.