Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
* Index (''A Certain Magical Index''), a character in the light novel series ''A Certain Magical Index'' * The Index, an item on the Halo Array in the ''Halo'' video game seriesPeriodicals and news portals
* ''Other arts, entertainment and media
* The Index (band) * ''Indexed'', a Web cartoon by Jessica Hagy * ''Index'', album by Ana MenaBusiness enterprises and events
* Index (retailer), a former UK catalogue retailer *Finance
* Index fund, a collective investment scheme *Places in the United States
* Index, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Index, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Index, Missouri, a ghost town * Index, New York, a hamlet in Hartwick and Otsego, New York * Index, Virginia, an unincorporated community * Index, Washington, a town * Index, West Virginia, an unincorporated communityPublishing and library studies
* Index (typography), a hand- or fist-shaped punctuation mark * Bibliographic index, a regularly updated publication that lists articles, books, or other information items * Citation index * The ''Index'', colloquial name for the '' List of Media Harmful to Youth and Adolescents'' (Germany) *Science, technology, and mathematics
Computer science
* , a character in Unicode * Index, the dataset maintained by search engine indexing * Array index, an integer pointer into an array data structure * BitTorrent index, a list of .torrent files available for searches * Database index, a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval * Index mapping of raw data for an array * Index register, a processor register used for modifying operand addresses during the run of a program * Indexed color, in computer imagery * Indexed Sequential Access Method (ISAM), used for indexing data for fast retrieval * Lookup table, a data structure used to store precomputed information * Site map, or site index, a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users * Web server directory index, a default or index web page in a directory on a web server, such as index.htmlEconomics
* Index (economics), a single number calculated from an array of prices and quantities ** Price index, a typical price for some good or serviceMathematics and statistics
* Index, the position of an element in aAlgebra
* Index of a subgroup, the number of a subgroup's left cosets * Index, the degree of an ''n''th root * Index of a linear map, the dimension of the map's kernel minus the dimension of its cokernel * Index of a matrix * Index of a real quadratic formAnalysis
* Index, the winding number of an oriented closed curve on a surface relative to a point on that surface * Diversity index, a measure of distribution or variety in fields such as ecology or information science * Index of a vector field, an integer that helps to describe the behaviour of a vector field around an isolated zeroNumber theory
* Index, or theStatistics
* Index (statistics), a type of aggregate measure ** Scale (social sciences), a method of reporting data in social sciences, sometimes called an indexOther uses in science and technology
* Indexicality, in linguistics, the phenomenon of a sign pointing to some object in the context in which it occurs * Indexing (motion), in mechanical engineering and machining, movement to a precisely known location * Index (physical sciences), a synonym for ratioOther uses
* ''INDEX'', earlier name for the Reimei satellite * Index:, a Danish nonprofit organization that promotes Design for Life * The Index (Dubai), a skyscraper * Index (crater), a Moon crater * In semiotics, an unintentional and non-arbitrary sign causally related to what it indicates, for example the smoke from a fire or the footprint of an animal.See also
* Indexi, a Yugoslav rock band * Indexer (disambiguation) *