cross index

¹

noun

1. a note or group of notes referring the reader to material elsewhere.

cross-index

²

[ kraws-in-deks, kros- ]

verb (used with object)

1. to provide with cross references or with a cross-referenced index.

verb (used without object)

1. to refer by a note or indication of location to related material, as in an index, book, or article; contain cross references:

   Footnotes cross-index to the appendix and bibliography.

cross-index

noun

1. a note or notes referring the reader to other material

verb

1. intr (of a note in a book) to refer to related material
2. to provide or be provided with cross-indexes

Word History and Origins

Origin of cross index¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Plain, every-day rules for lessening the cost of patterns, with a complete system of cost keeping, a detailed method of marking, applicable to all branches of the trade, with complete information showing what the pattern is, its specific title, its cost, date of production, material of which it is made, the number of pieces and core-boxes, and its location in the pattern safe, all condensed into a most complete card record, with cross index.

From Project Gutenberg

Now, all you have to do is, immediately you have made your entry, to index it; and if you will only spare the time and patience and perseverance, to cross index it.

From Project Gutenberg

But "Heuser" meant nothing until the Central Office cross index turned up the grisly testimony of a witness at the Nurnberg trials who recalled that one "Obersturmj�hrer Georg Heuser" had poured gasoline over a dozen Jewish prisoners and burned them alive at Minsk during the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

No supplier is too small to get help: a one-man shop can often get the machine it needs through the Council's cross index of Detroit tools and equipment, can get advice on simplifying its operations from the best brains in the business.

From Time Magazine Archive

He then describes a new compass with a needle thrust through a pivoted axis, placed in a box with transparent cover, cross index of brass or silver, divided circle, and an external “rule” or alhidade provided with a pair of sights.

From Project Gutenberg