card index card catalog card catalogue | an alphabetical listing of items (e.g., books in a library) with a separate card for each item |
index register | (computer science) a register used to determine the address of an operand |
thumb index | one of a series of rounded notches in the fore edge of a book to indicate sections |
index index finger forefinger | the finger next to the thumb |
clause | (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence |
main clause independent clause | a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence |
coordinate clause | a clause in a complex sentence that is grammatically equivalent to the main clause and that performs the same grammatical function |
subordinate clause dependent clause | a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb |
relative clause | a clause introduced by a relative pronoun, `who visits frequently' is a relative clause in the sentence `John, who visits frequently, is ill' |
restrictive clause | a subordinate clause that limits or restricts the meaning of the noun phrase it modifies |
nonrestrictive clause descriptive clause | a subordinate clause that does not limit or restrict the meaning of the noun phrase it modifies |
article clause | a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will) |
arbitration clause | a clause in a contract providing for arbitration of disputes arising under the contract |
escalator clause escalator | a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index) |
reserve clause | a clause that used to be part of the contract with a professional athlete extending the contract for a year beyond its expiration, the reserve clause was used to bind players to a particular ball club |
stock-index futures | a futures contract based on a stock index, a bet on the future price of the indexed group of stocks |
index | an alphabetical listing of names and topics along with page numbers where they are discussed |
Combined DNA Index System | the DNA file maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation |
enabling act enabling clause | a provision in a law that confers on appropriate officials the power to implement or enforce the law |
index index number indicant indicator | 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 |
body mass index BMI | 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 , obese is a BMI greater than |
business index | a statistical compilation that provides a context for economic or financial conditions, this business index is computed relative to the base year of |
Standard and Poor's Standard and Poor's Index | a broadly based stock market index |
price index price level | an index that traces the relative changes in the price of an individual good (or a market basket of goods) over time |
retail price index | an index of changes in retail prices |
producer price index wholesale price index | an index of changes in wholesale prices |
consumer price index CPI cost-of-living index | an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer |
stock index stock market index | index based on a statistical compilation of the share prices of a number of representative stocks |
crosseference cross-index | a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work |
exponent power index | a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself |
index fund | a mutual fund that invests in the stocks that are the basis of a well-known stock or bond index |
index fossil guide fossil | a fossil known to have lived in a particular geologic age that can be used to date the rock layer in which it is found |
index case | the earliest documented case of a disease that is included in an epidemiological study |
index fund | a mutual fund whose assets are stocks on a given list |
cephalic index breadth index cranial index | ratio (in percent) of the maximum breadth to the maximum length of a skull |
facial index | the ratio (in percent) of the maximum width to the maximum height of the face |
refractive index index of refraction | the ratio of the velocity of light in a vacuum to that in a medium |
index | a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number |
grandfather clause | an exemption based on circumstances existing prior to the adoption of some policy, used to enfranchise illiterate whites in south after the American Civil War |
index | adjust through indexation, The government indexes wages and prices |
index | provide with an index, index the book |
index | list in an index |
cross-index | make an index that refers from one point to the next, These references are cross-indexed |