Indexer

noun

noun ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person or program which creates indexes.

    "Our "title index" (list of story titles) is falling behind. If you'd like to come by and help update it, call Mike at GCN."

  2. 2
    someone who provides an index wordnet
  3. 3
    A special property of a class allowing objects of the class to be accessed by index as though they were arrays or hash tables.

Example

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"Our "title index" (list of story titles) is falling behind. If you'd like to come by and help update it, call Mike at GCN."

Etymology

From index + -er.

Related phrases

hash table

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