indexing

1 of 2

noun

in·​dex·​ing ˈin-ˌdek-siŋ 

: indexation

indexing

2 of 2

present participle of index entry 2

Examples of indexing in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

As the Web Almanac pointed out, the rise in video content comes with greater energy consumption and computational demands, as heavier pages drive up bandwidth usage, processing load and the overall energy footprint of web crawling and indexing. — Tal Lev-Ami, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Many users found pages through Yahoo-style directories, bookmarks, newsgroups, email signatures, and links from site to site because the web was still small enough that human organization could compete with machine indexing. — Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026

The legislature and governor opted for five years — and indexing, albeit one more sensitive to wage increases, not consumer prices. — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026

Direct indexing means owning the individual stocks that make up an index, like the S&P 500 or the Russell 1000, rather than buying the index through a mutual fund or ETF. — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 1 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1974, in the meaning defined above