…(in a book or set of books) an alphabetical list of names, subjects, etc. with reference to the pages on which they are mentioned…
…(in a book or set of books) an alphabetical list of names, subjects, etc. with reference to the pages on which they are mentioned…
…a catalogue or similar collection of information in which each item is entered on a separate card and the cards are arranged in a particular order, typically alphabetical…
…a note or cross reference in a book or list which refers the reader to other material…
…a figure indicating the relative prices of shares on the London Stock Exchange, especially also FTSE 100 index one calculated on the basis of Britain’s one hundred largest public companies…
…a quantity expressing the discomfort felt as a result of the combined effects of the temperature and humidity of the air…
…a small card on which information is recorded, typically stored alphabetically with others in a card index…
…the first identified case in a group of related cases of a particular communicable or heritable disease…
…a set of lettered grooves cut down the side of a book, especially a diary, address book, or dictionary, for easy reference…
…a fossil that is useful for dating and correlating the strata in which it is found…
…contracts to buy a range of shares at an agreed price but delivered and paid for later…
…a figure indicating the relative price of representative shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Also called Nikkei average…
…a number expressing the ratio of the maximum breadth of a skull to its maximum length…
…a figure representing the relative ability of a carbohydrate food to increase the level of glucose in the blood…
…an exponential factor relating the flux density of a radio source to its frequency…
…the ratio of the velocity of light in a vacuum to its velocity in a specified medium…
…an approximate measure of whether someone is over- or underweight, calculated by dividing their weight in kilograms by the square of their height in metres…
…an index of figures indicating the relative price of shares on the New York Stock Exchange, based on the average price of selected stocks…
…a figure indicating the relative price of shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange…
…(in the UK) an index of the variation in the prices of retail goods and other items…
…(on the Australian stock exchanges) an index based on the weighted average of selected ordinary share prices…
…(in the US) an index of the variation in prices for retail goods and other items…
…contracts to buy a range of shares at an agreed price but delivered and paid for later…
…an official list of books which Roman Catholics were forbidden to read or which were to be read only in expurgated editions, as contrary to Catholic faith or morals. The first Index was issued in 1557; it was revised at intervals until abolished in 1966…
…a quantity expressing the discomfort felt as a result of the combined effects of the temperature and humidity of the air…
…index (something) under another heading as a cross reference…
…a figure representing the relative ability of a carbohydrate food to increase the level of glucose in the blood…
