index card

English

Index cards in a card catalog

Noun

index card (plural index cards)

1. A piece of heavy paper stock used to record information to be stored in a card index or to supply the copy (content) from which to generate a book index.

   Near-synonym: notecard (often not differentiated)

Related terms

• card catalogue
• card index
• index (verb)
• indexing (noun)

Translations

piece of heavy paper stock used to record information to be stored in an index

• Dutch: systeemkaart
• French: fiche (fr) f
• German: Karteikarte (de) f
• Greek: δελτίο (el) f (deltío)
• Italian: cartellino (it) m, scheda (it) f
• Macedonian: фи́ша f (fíša)
• Portuguese: ficha (pt) f
• Russian: учетная карточка (učetnaja kartočka)
• Spanish: ficha (es) f, cartulina (es) f, ficha índice f, tarjeta índice f, cédula (es) f
• Swedish: kartotekskort n
• Thai: บัตรรายการ

Anagrams

• card index, card-index