indication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Old French indication, from Latin indicātiō (“a showing, indicating the value of something; valuation”), from indicō (“point out, indicate, show; value”); see indicate; compare French indication, Spanish indicación, Italian indicazione. By surface analysis, indicate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: indications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of pointing out or indicating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A mark or another symbol used to represent something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
gloss: A discovery made; information.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An explanation; a display.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Influenza and suspected influenza are FDA-approved indications for oseltamivir.
In the United States, major depressive disorder is an off-label indication for clomipramine, but in various other countries, it is an approved indication.
The theme of treatment failure of previous treatments plus continuing impairment (pain and poor function) appears among the indications for many types of joint replacement surgery.
The first indication he meets by a dose of calomel, 1o to .30 gm., followed, if necessary, by magnesium sulphate in boiled water.
gloss: A declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: demonstration
evidence
mark
proof
sign
signal
token
patteran
Related words: index
indicate
indicator
indicative
Derived words: bioindication
coindication
contraindication
counterindication
geographical indication
indicational
paleoindication
signal indication
subindication
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