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subject indexing

subject indexing noun: the act of describing a document by index terms to indicate what the document is about or to summarize its content, the index terms often coming from a controlled vocabulary.

Noun

subject indexing (uncountable)

  1. The act of describing a document by index terms to indicate what the document is about or to summarize its content, the index terms often coming from a controlled vocabulary.

Questions about subject indexing

What does subject indexing mean?
Subject indexing means the act of describing a document by index terms to indicate what the document is about or to summarize its content, the index terms often coming from a controlled vocabulary.
What part of speech is subject indexing?
Subject indexing is a noun.

Words near subject indexing in the dictionary

  1. subject clauses
  2. subject complement
  3. subject complements
  4. subject heading
  5. subject headings
  6. subject indexing
  7. subject matter
  8. subject matter jurisdiction
  9. subject matters
  10. subject of labor
  11. subject pronoun

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