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card index N

卡片目录 kǎpiàn mùlù

卡片索引 kǎpiàn suǒyǐn

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And another name went into the all-embracing card index. en.wikipedia.org

Modern detective work is less about hunches and card indexes and more about rolling reviews of what teams know, with computers to help join the evidential dots. www.bbc.co.uk

But the card index was a perfect contender for digitalreplacement, even in an era when computers were mainly text-based. www.fastcompany.com

Museum collections, and archives in general, are normally catalogued in a collection catalogue, traditionally in a card index, but nowadays in a computerized database. en.wikipedia.org

If this can not be done on a genetic basis, then an artificial system must answer in order to serve as a card index to rock descriptions. en.wikipedia.org

While useful information can be gleaned from museum card indexes and registers, these rarely include historical details. www.museumsassociation.org

There was also a personality card index which contained detailed information of people of interest. en.wikipedia.org

Outside the world of professional information technology, the term "database" is sometimes used casually to refer to any collection of data (perhaps a spreadsheet, maybe even a card index). en.wikipedia.org

This was in the days before computers and the records were all accessed by card index. news.bbc.co.uk

It was effectively the data centre of the intelligence unit and formed a huge cross-referencing system stored in card index files. www.mobileindustryreview.com

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