| 单词 | index |
| 释义 | index (once / 216 pages) 1nv 2n 3n Can’t find any information on the yellow-eyed junco in your guide to rare birds? Check out your bird book's index. It’s an alphabetical list in the back of the book that catalogs all of the subjects covered by page number. In financial terms, an index is a list of stocks that are traded on the stock market, such as the Dow Jones Indexes. “Index cards” were once used to catalog books in a library, but now they’re mostly used to prepare for a test or a presentation, thanks to computers. As a verb, index describes the action of creating an index, such as, “I’m going to index my photo collection on my computer, so I can find what I’m looking for.” WORD FAMILYindex: indexation, indexed, indexer, indexes, indexical, indexing, indexless, indices+/indexer: indexers USAGE EXAMPLESThe dollar index - which measures the greenback against six major rivals - climbed 0.4 percent. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) Florida law requires annual adjustments to gas taxes based on changes in the consumer price index, which measures what people are paying for goods. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The rising minimum wage reflects an increase in the Consumer Price Index, which rose 0.7 percent during the past year. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n an alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed Hypo|Hyper concordance an index of all main words in a book along with their immediate contexts list, listing a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) 2v list in an index Hypo|Hyper cross-index make an index that refers from one point to the next list include in a list 3v provide with an index index the book Hyper furnish, provide, render, supply give something useful or necessary to 4v adjust through indexation 2The government indexes wages and prices Hyper determine, influence, mold, regulate, shape shape or influence; give direction to 1n a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number Hypo|Hyper margin of error, margin of safety, safety margin the margin required in order to insure safety graduated table, ordered series, scale, scale of measurement an ordered reference standard 2n 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 Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper index number, indicant, indicator Dow-Jones Industrial Average an indicator of stock market prices; based on the share values of 30 blue-chip stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange Standard and Poor's Indexa broadly based stock market index BMI, body mass index a measure of someone's weight in relation to height; to calculate one's BMI, multiply one's weight in pounds and divide that by the square of one's height in inches; overweight is a BMI greater than 25; obese is a BMI greater than 30 business indexa statistical compilation that provides a context for economic or financial conditions leading indicatorone of 11 indicators for different sections of the economy; used by the Department of Commerce to predict economic trends in the near future price index, price levelan index that traces the relative changes in the price of an individual good (or a market basket of goods) over time short accountthe aggregate of short sales on an open market stock index, stock market indexindex based on a statistical compilation of the share prices of a number of representative stocks retail price indexan index of changes in retail prices producer price index, wholesale price indexan index of changes in wholesale prices CPI, consumer price index, cost-of-living indexan index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer fact a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened 3n a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper exponent, power degree the highest power of a term or variable log, logarithmthe exponent required to produce a given number degree of a termthe sum of the exponents of the variables in the term degree of a polynomialthe degree of the term in the polynomial that has the highest degree first degreea degree of one common logarithma logarithm to the base 10 Napierian logarithm, natural logarithma logarithm to the base e mathematical notation a notation used by mathematicians n the finger next to the thumb Syn|Hyper forefinger, index finger finger any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb) |
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