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What does the index mean?
Index refers to related matters in books, newspapers, etc.

Pinyin su ǒ y ǐ n.

Basic explanation

1, pull with a rope. Song Ceng Gong's "Moving Cangzhou to the Imperial Palace": "It is better to float in the country that refers to it, not to call it, but to lose it."

2. Tools for searching books and materials. Classify and extract the contents or items in books and periodicals, mark the number of pages, arrange them in a certain order, attach them to a book, or print them into a separate book for readers to consult. Formerly known as general inspection or standby inspection.

Example The search engine uses content-based indexes to better understand users' queries.

Conceptual index is a decentralized storage structure, which is created to speed up the retrieval of data rows in tables. Index the table. It consists of index pages instead of data pages, and the rows in each index page contain logical pointers to speed up the retrieval of physical data.

Indexing sentence making

The index of this dictionary helped me find the word I wanted.

2. I am indexing chapters of my thesis.

We need to establish a detailed catalogue index for this book.

I found the research materials I wanted in the library index.

The index of this magazine lists the titles and page numbers of all articles.

We need to update the index of this textbook.

The index of this book lists all the names and topics in alphabetical order.

8. I am using the indexing function of this software to generate a report.

9. The index of this database has expired and needs to be rebuilt.

10, the index of this journal includes all article titles, author names and publication years.