cross index
noun
a note or group of notes referring the reader to material elsewhere.
cross-indexed
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past participleof cross-index.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof cross-index.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
cross indexnouna note or group of notes referring the reader to material elsewhere.
Example Sentences
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I have friends who keep a spreadsheet of every show they’ve seen, cross-indexed to their Playbill collection.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
Working from a Madison Avenue office, Mr. Jarecki and Mr. Smerling built a library of documents, court records, interviews and newspaper articles, all of it cross-indexed and annotated.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2019
Sitting at dual monitors in the captain's cabin of his houseboat, Heede takes me on a tour of his data set, a seemingly endless series of color-coded and cross-indexed spreadsheets.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 25, 2016
They are indexed by witness and cross-indexed by subject.
From Time Magazine Archive
All the reports had been analyzed, correlated, cross-indexed and filed—except those of the First Team.
From Masters of Space by Robert Lee Berry
