Library / English Dictionary

INDEXING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("indexing" is a kind of...):

assortment; categorisation; categorization; classification; compartmentalisation; compartmentalization (the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type)

Derivation:

index (provide with an index)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb index

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