Sentence examples for index meaning from inspiring English sources

India ranks 85th on Transparency International's 2008 "corruption perceptions index," meaning at least 84 countries are seen as less corrupt, including Saudi Arabia, Ghana, Mexico and China.

One problem they share is a narrow therapeutic index, meaning the line between an effective dose and a hazardous one is thin.

A few months ago, I fell off a thousand-plus-foot-high sheer granite face that had earned a 5.14d rating on the Yosemite Decimal System index — meaning that it is one of the most difficult climbs known to man.

Still, while sugar itself is no longer believed to contribute to acne, some doctors think that foods with a high glycemic index – meaning they quickly elevate glucose in the body — might.

Iceland is the current top dawg on The Big Mac index (meaning you get the littlest value for money), but the Economist boffins published their calculations last July, and since then the Icelandic economy has been having a bit of a wobble.

And Swank found the MLPs weren't correlated to the S&P or any other major securities index, meaning the broader market has a limited effect on them.

Also, many of the big state pension funds had adopted indexing, meaning that even if a company was poorly managed, they were committed to holding it.

They include the persistence of net short positions on the broad indexes, meaning that investors have more money riding on a market fall than on a market rise, and, despite low interest rates, the still relatively high cost of financing for banks, which curtails lending.

HBase does not support secondary indexes, meaning that data can only be queried by the primary key or by a table scan.

The commonly used (see e.g. Dorfi ([1999]) in RHD, Iwakami et al. ([2008]) in MHD, Fryxell et al. ([2000]) in MHD) form of Q (16) is not compatible with these requirements since the symmetrization is only defined for lower indices, whereas the unit tensor e of a metric space is only defined for mixed indices, meaning there is no such thing as δ i j.

As seen in Table 3, the surfactants studied presented rather narrow therapeutic indices, meaning that, in principle, their eventual use as spermicides for topical intravaginal use should, at the very least, be carefully controlled.