The plural(s) of 'index' in U.S. dictionaries Both Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary (2003) and The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (2010) give indexes and indices as acceptable plurals of index —but both of them list indexes first and indices second, which their way of indicating that indexes is the more ...

Forms: Pl. indexes (also 16 index's) and indices /ˈɪndɪsiːz/ . Etymology: < Latin inde, indic-em, plural indicēs, the forefinger, an informer, sign, inscription. [...] In current use the plural is indices in senses 8, 9, and usually in other senses except 5, in which indexes is usual.

2006年12月10日 · Indices is now and has always been the only plural of the noun 'Index'. Indexes is the present tense of the verb 'Index'. example: n. There are many stock indices. v. Jim indexes his files alphabetically.

What is the plural of the word "index"? It seems that there are two that are acceptable: "indexes" and "indices". I happen to prefer "indices" but I was wondering if one was generally preferred over the other. I am using "index" as a programming term to indicate the position of …

"A value of '2' cannot be surrounded by two instances of the value '3'". An index is the position in the list, the value is the member at that index. So for a list of: {1,2,3,4,5}; the value at index 0 is 1, the value at index 2 is 3, etc (or if index values start at 1, then the value at index 1 is 1 and the value at index 3 is 3). –

2019年5月24日 · Then your sentence is correct because the index in the second comparison is easily inferred from the stated index in the first comparison. If there are two different indices and they are each greater than one, then you have to use the plural and you have to state you're referring to an index (not several indices):

2008年1月20日 · Cari tutti, what's the plural of index? One index, two indices? Is it the same in BE and AE and NZE and AuE

2008年11月22日 · I really can't think of another plural for index finger other than... index fingers! EDIT: Regarding the plural of index thread, that is not talking about index fingers . If you said "Everyone had their indices / indexes in the air"' I really don't think it would be clear that you were talking about fingers.

2021年12月17日 · Its plural form can be both the plural in Latin "indices" and the English way of making a plural "indexes". In the other thread for locus, only the Latin plural "loci" works, not the "locuses". So while looking for plural form of an English loan word from Latin, the Latin version seems to work, while the English plural way may not work, as a ...

2016年5月19日 · So for the word bus, /bʌs/, we get the plural form /bʌsɪz/. In writing we represent this with the written suffix -ES. So we write the plural form of bus as buses. Words that end with the written letter X usually end with an /s/ sound. The word box, for example is pronounced /bɒks/. So we pronounce the plural form of box as /bɒksɪz/.