(US, meteorology) A figure used by American meteorologists to describe the apparent heat felt by a person as the result of a combination of temperature and humidity.

(databases) a type of database index that physically sorts the data in a table on the disk to match the criteria specified by the index.

(databases) a type of database index that contains a series of sorted pointers pointing to the physical data rows, which are organized either in a heap or in the sort order specified by a clustered index, on the disk

(economics) Ellipsis of ease of doing business index..

In a skull, the ratio of the distance from the middle of the nasofrontal suture to the basion (taken equal to 100), to the distance from the basion to the middle of the front edge of the upper jaw.

(anatomy) In the skull, the ratio of the vertical height to the transverse width of the orbit, which is taken as the standard, equal to 100.

A measure of how quickly blood sugar levels rise after eating a particular type of food, on a scale where the index of glucose or ordinary table sugar is 100.

(economics) An economic indicator formed by adding the unemployment rate to the inflation rate.

(information science) A controlled set of terms selected from natural language and used to represent, in summary form, the subjects of documents within a given field of knowledge.

(databases) A listing of records used to prune them during requests.