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Index can be defined as:
- an ordered list, plural indexes
- a number or variable, plural indices.
Index can also have the following meanings:
- The city -- Index, Washington, United States
- Publishing purposes; see index (publishing)
- Information technology (IT) purposes; see index (information technology) or index (database)
- The default page served by a web server, such as index.html or index.htm.
- Mathematics; see index (mathematics)
- Linguistics; see Indexicality
- Economics and finance; see index (economics)
- In Roman Catholicism the Index is the Index Librorum Prohibitorum created in 1559, the list of books that obedient Catholics were forbidden to read.
- This meaning has been extended to book censorship by some political regimes.
- Index also refers to a style of playing the game stepmania by using index fingers on both hands to hit the arrows on the keyboard; see StepMania.
- Index fingers on our hands.
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