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Index card

An index card, called a record card in British English and a system card in Australian English, consists of card stock (heavy paper) cut to a standard size, used for recording and storing small amounts of discrete data. A collection of such cards either serves as, or aids the creation of, an index for expedited lookup of information (such as a library cat…

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Index card

Nodes32
Edges31
Triples86
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.0625
Components1

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related to Further reading · 45
Index card → Alberto, Alphabetical Order, Archived, Armen, Basic Books, Bird, Boston, Brill Publishers, Card-Storage Systems, Cevolini, Creative Thinking, Early Modern Europe, Everything, Flanders, Forgetting Machines, From Copy Clerks, Haig, Hand, Handcraft, Index Cards
related to history · 14
Index card → Arca, Carl Linnaeus, De, English, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Harrison's, His, In, Index, Linnaeus, The, The German, Thomas Harrison, Vincent Placcius
see also · 11
Index card → Address, Cards, Database, Index, Knowledge, Paper-based, PDA, Rotating, Satirical, Software, Standard
related to Format · 8
Index card → Cards, ISO-size A7, North America, Other, Special, The, They, UK
related to External links · 4
Index card → Index, Media, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Uses · 3
Index card → An, Index, Professional

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index cards card used information size data system record standard library linnaeus paper file books order systems recording invented around

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bibliographical citations or notes in a card fileinstance ofand in academic research to hold data0.80text
Index cardrelated to External linksWiktionary-logo-en-v20.60section
Index cardrelated to External linksMedia0.60section
Index cardrelated to External linksIndex0.60section
Index cardrelated to External linksWikimedia Commons0.60section
Index cardrelated to FormatThe0.60section
Index cardrelated to FormatNorth America0.60section
Index cardrelated to FormatUK0.60section
Index cardrelated to FormatOther0.60section
Index cardrelated to FormatISO-size A70.60section
Index cardrelated to FormatCards0.60section
Index cardrelated to FormatSpecial0.60section

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