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Card index   /kɑrd ˈɪndɛks/   Listen
Card index

noun
1.
An alphabetical listing of items (e.g., books in a library) with a separate card for each item.  Synonyms: card catalog, card catalogue.






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"Card index" Quotes from Famous Books



... inexorable fate condemns him to scrub the gore of Brother Briton off the tiles of the operating theatre. He may (but I never met one who did) elect to sit snugly on a stool at a desk filling-in army forms or conducting a card index; and lo, at a whisper from some unseen Nabob in the War Office, he finds himself hooked willy-nilly off his stool and dumped into the Rifle Brigade. This is what it means to be in khaki, and it is hardly ...
— Observations of an Orderly - Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital • Ward Muir



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