indexing

Universal term for Coding and Data Entry.

In olden days, the act of looking up a "key" in an actual index (such as a phone book), but now merely the act of using any kind of key or position to find the corresponding "value", even if no index is involved. Things have degenerated to the point that Perl's index function merely locates the position (index) of one string in another.

act of specifying the predetermined topic, name, number, or caption under which a document is to be filed See also classifying and coding.

See interaction crosstalk.