An index on the side of the instrument records the number of fathoms of wire paid out.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Ernest Gallaudet Draper
An error after adjustment is called the index Error.
"Lectures in Navigation"
Ernest Gallaudet Draper
We possess detailed accounts of the number of persons paying income tax in each grade of income under Schedule D, from the year 1849, and if we compare the figures of that year with those of 1879, we shall obtain a fair index to the movement of distribution during those thirty years.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae