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cross-index

cross-index \cross-index\ v. t. to provide cross-references in (a book or other document).

Syn: cross-reference.

cross-index

cross-index \cross-index\ n. a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work.

Syn: cross-reference.

WordNet
cross-index
  1. n. a reference at one place in a work to information at another place in the same work [syn: cross-reference]

  2. v. make an index that refers from one point to the next; "These references are cross-indexed"

Usage examples of "cross-index".

Impatiently skipping this subentry, Ampris cross-indexed her request to Aaroun homeworld.

You will note, McCoy said, that the bank account numbers are all in place, and all the corporate and private transactions are cross-indexed by their Central Clearing Bank reference numbers.

I have cross-indexed, correlated, even searched a list of key words, but have found only that notation, and a brief and somewhat sarcastic news item about a society of neo-pagans departing from Terra to establish their own notion of Utopia on a distant planet.

He had found his Complete and Concise Home Doctor (two massive volumes, cross-indexed, fifteen hundred pages, including everything from ptomaine poisoning to beauty tips on the care and shaping of the eyebrow) in the Port of London, and had even learned English in order to understand it.

As fast as material was obtained, it was relayed to the Interior offices, to the aggregate file banks where the civil population was represented by a series of punch cards, cross-indexed infinitely.