KWIC

Coined by IBM research engineer Hans Peter Luhn.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “deliberately homophonous with quick?”)

KWIC (plural KWICs)

1. (linguistics) Initialism of keyword in context: a list of phrases obtained by searching a corpus, each containing the node (or word of interest) and its surrounding cotext.

• Key Word in Context on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• -wick, Cwik, Wick, wick

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

KWIC

Wikipedia ^ja

Borrowed from English KWIC.

• IPA^(key): [kɯ̟ik̚kɯ̟]

KWIC(クイック) • (kuikku) 

1. (linguistics) KWIC; keyword in context

• 文脈(ぶんみゃく)付(つ)き索引(さくいん) (bunmyaku-tsuki sakuin, literally “index with context”)