INDEXING Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

indexing 1 of 2

noun

Definition of indexing

as in classification

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Relevance

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indexing

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verb

present participle of index

as in entering

to put (someone or something) on a list indexed all the books in the library by category

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deleting

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Noun

This update will kick off some indexing work that will then be leveraged in an ostensibly much more robust Spotlight search feature when iOS 27 launches next month. — Samuel Axon, ArsTechnica, 27 July 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

Verb

Economists generally have calculated that whatever economic growth could be ascribed to the change would be washed out by the revenue loss from inflation-indexing only new purchases, and utterly swamped by the cost of indexing all holdings, past and future. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026 OpenAI’s trajectory mirrors the rise of Google parent Alphabet, which built its business around indexing the web and now has a foothold in everything from consumer tech devices to health research. — Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for indexing

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Noun

The rules for selling e-bike classification labels also would become stricter.

— Madison Smalstig July 18, Sacbee.com, 18 July 2026
The company says the software maintains more than 99% classification accuracy despite the dramatic reduction.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 July 2026

Definition of classification

Verb

With the Chiron retrograde entering Taurus this month, your sense of self-worth will be a central focus, Aries.

— Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Aug. 2026
Chicago Bears tight end Colston Loveland is entering his second season with the franchise and has momentum heading into this fall.

— Trevor Woods, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of entering

Noun

Heitkamp, who started his career cataloging fossils at Bonhams auction house in Los Angeles before founding Theropoda Expeditions in 2012, excavated the Licking site over the course of three field seasons, from 2021 to 2023.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 13 July 2026
The early copy remained tucked away in Britain’s National Archives until a volunteer cataloging records from the American Revolutionary War came across it in May among the papers of Royal Navy captains.

— Elmira Aliieva, NBC news, 3 July 2026

Definition of cataloging

Verb

Attached was a spreadsheet listing more than 3,000 ISBNs along with instructions to match titles, prepare quotes and estimate shipping costs directed to China.

— Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 31 July 2026
The listing agents are Diane Kingshill and Jason Lee Villarreal with Martha Turner Sotheby’s International Realty.

— David Caraccio Updated July 31, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of listing

Noun

Maria's books were fine for running the business day to day, but they were tangled with personal expenses and inconsistent categorization.

— Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Though renowned, Etna has stubbornly defied categorization in the traditional volcano lifecycle.

— Refractor, Refractor, 27 July 2026

Definition of categorization

Verb

Judge William Sullivan impounded the call, prohibiting the press from recording or broadcasting the audio.

— Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 3 Aug. 2026
Palencia would have established himself as one of the sport’s top closers, and the Cubs wouldn’t have needed to set a franchise record with 13 pitchers recording at least one save.

— Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of recording

Noun

The codification of what became soccer Public school graduates took their versions of the game with them to the next level.

— Thomas Adam, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
Three Americans died in the 1996 incident that led to sanctions and the codification of the trade embargo on Cuba that remains in place today.

— Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 20 May 2026

Definition of codification

Verb

All four of her grandparents were born and raised in Italy; in 2018, the then 62-year-old former magazine editor moved to Perugia, in the central Umbria region, on a temporary visa at the same time as filing a lawsuit for citizenship.

— Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
He’s been working as a clerk and is representing himself in an appeal, which stalled out in November, when Brun stopped filing paperwork.

— Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026

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