Index Definition/Meaning:

1. The mechanism, computer-oriented or otherwise, in which a data value is presented to an ordered list that contains not the desired value associated with the data item, but a location at which further searching for the data item should be continued. The index often does not contain all values of the data item presented but simply a limiting range that contains it, e.g. the page headings of a telephone directory.

2. The value held in an index register.

3. (subscript) An integer value selecting a particular element of an array.

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