Index

On an automated screen printing press, to move the substrate into position beneath the screen prior to making an impression.

In book typography, a portion of the back matter of a book providing a comprehensive alphabetized list of terms, names, subjects, or other material used in the book and on what page(s) they can be found, for easy location of specific material in the text.

[A symbol or number used to identify a particular value in a series of similar values.

Index sequential: A method of organizing computer disk files for random access, whereby overflow material from one addressable location contains the address of the next portion of the data.

Inverted index: A file structure that contains each value that can be used as a search parameter, together with pointers to identify the record within the data file from which each search value was extracted.

A symbol or number used to identify a particular value in a series of similar values.

A file created from the Full-Text File or other database to facilitate searching. Sometimes called an "inverted file," an index consists of all terms that are not Stopwords and are found in a given Field (if Fields exist in the file). In the initial step of creating an index, the terms are listed in the order of their occurrence in the Full-Text File. Then they are alphabetized ("inverted") and stored with the addresses of the text locations where they occurred. When the user enters a search request, the term(s) can be found quickly in the alphabetized listing. the associated addresses may be used for a further test such as Proximity and are then translated into the Set of Text Units that are the Hits of the search.]

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