indexer

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noun

A person or program which creates indexes.

OriginEnglish index ← Latin index →
Less commonScrabble 15
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Meanings

nounindexer (plural indexers)

plural indexers

  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.

    1986 December 7, “Indexer Needed”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 21, page 13
  2. .NETcomputingA special property of a class allowing objects of the class to be accessed by index as though they were arrays or hash tables.

Origin

  1. Latinindex
  2. Englishindex
  3. Englishindexer

From index + -er.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

reindex
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APA

indexer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indexer

MLA

“indexer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indexer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “indexer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/indexer.

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