indexed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of index.

   The archivist indexed the entire collection over the summer.

   All the records were indexed before the audit began.

   Note

   One regular -ed form covers both the simple past (she indexed the archive) and the participle behind passives and perfects (the archive was indexed, has been indexed). Beyond the library, economists speak of wages or pensions indexed to inflation, linked to a price index so their real value holds, and programmers index into a data container to fetch a value. Before a noun, the participle settles into the adjective: an indexed edition.

2. 2
   adjective

   Provided with an index, or organized in the form of an index for easy reference.

   The new edition is thoroughly indexed, making cross-references simple to trace.

   Their entire photo archive is indexed by date and location.

   Similarcataloged, sorted, organized

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