Indication

/ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/ · noun

Meaning

An act of pointing out or indicating..

Definitions by Sense

1. An act of pointing out or indicating.
2. A fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
3. (rare) A mark or another symbol used to represent something.
4. A discovery made; information.
5. (obsolete) An explanation; a display.
6. (medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease that serves to direct to suitable remedies; the problem that warrants and prompts the use of a diagnostic test, imaging mode, or treatment (e.g., medication, surgical procedure).
7. (finance) A declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.

Example Sentences

There's no indication that the fire was caused by criminals.

All the indications point to drink-driving as the cause of the accident.

The frequent stops they make in the most convenient places are plain indications of their weariness.

Her shrewd eye, accustomed to note the slightest indications, had already marked their likeness to each other, and that ease of affection which belongs to habit and relationship.

We turn briefly to ME /ɛː/ and /ɔː/. There is little or no indication of change for most of the sixteenth century; Bellot’s ME /ɛː/ has ‘the mouth halfe open’, which does not suggest anything closer than [ɛː], other French and German writers give similar descriptions.

For the indication either proceeds from one experiment to another; or else from experiments to axioms; which axioms themselves suggest new experiments.

The committee, unknown to the workmen, also followed the next or succeeding mash, which was better made, and obtained the following results: First indication of the saccharometer .. 7⅘ degrees. Last indication of the saccharometer ... 1

In an electrical anunciator the combination with a plurality of indicators all operative conjointly and simultaneously by any one of several circuit closers and adapted to give a combined indication, of the automatic means for holding the circuit closed until all of the indicators in the circuit have made their indications, and then resetting the operated circuit closer ready for another operation.

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