card index

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card index (plural card indexes or card indices)

  1. (libraries, business) Any index formed with index cards, as was common in many businesses before the microcomputer revolution.
    Hypernym: index
    Coordinate terms: library catalog, library catalogue (often coinstantial before the 21st century; now usually not)
    Near-synonym: card catalogue

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