(US, meteorology) A figure used by American meteorologists to describe the apparent heat felt by a person as the result of a combination of temperature and humidity.

An index of words.

(databases) a type of database index that physically sorts the data in a table on the disk to match the criteria specified by the index.

(databases) a type of database index that contains a series of sorted pointers pointing to the physical data rows, which are organized either in a heap or in the sort order specified by a clustered index, on the disk

plural of index fossil

(economics) Ellipsis of ease of doing business index..

(finance) Of financial products such as bonds, savings accounts, pension schemes, etc., yielding returns that are calculated based on the level of a referenced financial index, such as a consumer price index, typically to keep pace with inflation.

(programming) A processor register (or an assigned memory location) used to point to operand addresses during the run of a program, useful for stepping through strings and arrays.

plural of index register

(pharmacology) The ratio of the median toxic dose of a drug to its median effective dose, used to gauge the safety of a particular medication (a low therapeutic index indicates that the drug is easily overdosed).