verb
- past tense and past participle of reindex: to create a new index for something or to reorganize an existing index
Usage: computing; library science
Examples
- The database was reindexed to improve search performance.
- After adding new records, the librarian reindexed the entire catalog.
- The search engine reindexed all the web pages last night.
- The IT team reindexed the file system to optimize storage.
- Once the documents were reindexed, finding information became much easier.
- The software automatically reindexed the data after the update.