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/ˌɪndəkˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Indication

noun

Something that serves to indicate or suggest. Synonym: indicant. "Indications of strain" , "Symptoms are the prime indicants of disease"

The act of indicating or pointing out by name. Synonym: denotation.

(medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a procedure.

Something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary.

A datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument. Synonyms: meter reading, reading. "The barometer gave clear indications of an approaching storm"

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"Indication" Quotes from Famous Books

... Mr. Taft as his successor he made no indication as to the vice-presidency. Of course, the nomination of Mr. Taft under such conditions was a foregone conclusion, and when the convention met it was practically unanimous for Roosevelt's choice. Who was the best man to nominate ...

— My Memories of Eighty Years • Chauncey M. Depew

... considerable intervals. Hunt's tongue joke not only retroacted to deepen the impression of vulgarity which his last evening's performance had given Annie, but in turn was made to appear a far more significant indication of his character on account of its sequence ...

— Potts's Painless Cure - 1898 • Edward Bellamy

... forum, and cast a shade upon all civil honors, if military glory were still in possession of another. Other accomplishments might more easily be connived at, but the talents of a great general were truly imperial. Tortured with such anxious thoughts, and brooding over them in secret, [128] a certain indication of some malignant intention, be judged it most prudent for the present to suspend his rancor, tilt the first burst of glory and the affections of the army should remit: for Agricola still possessed ...

— The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus • Tacitus

... is to the giver, and comes back most to him—it cannot fail, The oration is to the orator, the acting is to the actor and actress not to the audience, And no man understands any greatness or goodness but his own, or the indication of ...

— Leaves of Grass • Walt Whitman

... port, succeeded in visiting his garrison, and immediately re-embarked, taking with him his youngest son. On arriving on board his bungalow, he was received by his followers with a salute, which decisive indication of his presence immediately attracted the attention of his opponents, one of whose boats, commanded by the nephew of the Sheikh of Bahrene, proceeded to attack him. A desperate struggle ensued, and the Sheikh finding after some time that he had ...

— The Pirates Own Book • Charles Ellms

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