index card

noun

a card, often relatively small, as 3 × 5 inches (7.6 × 12.7 centimeters), used in noting or recording information and usually filed in an index.

First recorded in 1925–30

Back then, they would write down examples of a word on an index card and mail it to the editors.

When the numerical index is adopted, an alphabetical index card with cross-references, including the docket index, is used.

See—adjustable to hold with perfect ease an envelope, an index card, or a strip of paper no wider than a postage stamp.

This is an index card, and is placed in the front of the file.

A follow-up of the claims is provided by a plain index card on which is written the name of the debtor and number of the claim.

An index card is then filled in with the name of the subject and the number of the folder, and filed alphabetically.

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