Definition of Indexer

1. Noun. Someone who provides an index.

Generic synonyms: Skilled Worker, Skilled Workman, Trained Worker
Derivative terms: Index, Index

Definition of Indexer

1. n. One who makes an index.

Definition of Indexer

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

2. Noun. (computing programming .NET) A special property of a class allowing objects of the class to be accessed by index as though they were arrays or hash tables. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Indexer

1. one that indexes [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indexer

index fund
index hypermetropia
index myopia
index number
index of refraction
index register
index rerum
index term
index verborum
indexability
indexable
indexal
indexation
indexations
indexed
indexer (current term)
indexers
indexes
indexical
indexical signs
indexicality
indexically
indexicals
indexing
indexings
indexless
indexlike
indexterity
india paper

Literary usage of Indexer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1894)
"THE HOST PERFECT indexer. The RUDOLPH indexer SYSTEM possesses many advantages which recommend it to Publishers and Booksellers—in fact, to any one who has ..."

2. Manual of Library Economy by James Duff Brown (1907)
"Rudolph indexer Book (Section 289). 290. There are certain advantages claimed for page catalogues which may be enumerated here. ..."

3. How to Make an Index by Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1902)
"THE GOOD indexer. ... for an index expresses well the difficulties ever present • the indexer; and the most successful confess the truth that it contains, ..."

4. What is an Index?: A Few Notes on Indexes and Indexers by Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1879)
"My friend Mr. Campkin, a veteran indexer, quotes this description in the preface ... Mr. Campkin is quite right as to the estimation in which the indexer is ..."

5. Museums Journal by Museums Association (1902)
"... up in loops within the cabinet (like the cards in the Jacquard attachment to a loom). This ingenious apparatus is called the Rudolph continuous indexer, ..."

6. Annual Conference Proceedings of the American Library Association by American Library Association. Conference, American Library Association (1890)
"That the Joint Committee of the two Houses of Congress on the Library be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to appoint an official indexer of ..."

7. Papers and Proceedings of the ... General Meeting of the American Library by General Meeting, American Library Association (1890)
"§3341) introduced : BILL To provide for the appointment of an official indexer of public documents. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ..."

8. Full Abstracts of the Feet of Fines Relating to the County of Dorset by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Edward Alexander Fry, George Samuel Fry (1896)
"To have done so would have taken too long, and it is not the part of an indexer to attempt ... indexer ..."

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