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indication en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/

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.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) An act of pointing out or indicating.
2. (countable, uncountable) A fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
   • There's no indication that the fire was caused by criminals.
   • 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. 1999, Roger Lass, “Phonology and morphology”, in The Cambridge History of the English Language, volume III, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 84:
   • 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. September 9, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian volume 156
   • 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. 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 274:
3. (countable, rare, uncountable) A mark or another symbol used to represent something.
4. (countable, uncountable) A discovery made; information.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) An explanation; a display.
   • 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 1870, USA House of Representatives, House Documents - Volume 12; Volume 265, page 124:
   • For the indication either proceeds from one experiment to another; or else from experiments to axioms; which axioms themselves suggest new experiments. 1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: Or a Natural History, in Ten Centuries:
   • 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. 1895 November 5, “549,241. Electrical annunciator. Robert L. Hunter, Minneapolis, Minn. Filed Feb. 3, 1894. Serial No. 499,035. (No model.)”, in The Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume 73, number 6, Washington: Government Publishing Office, page 874:
6. (countable, uncountable) 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).
   • 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. 1900, Massachusetts Medical Journal, page 460:
   • Influenza and suspected influenza are FDA-approved indications for oseltamivir.
7. (countable, uncountable) A declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.

Forms

Deriveds

indicational · contraindication · geographical indication · coindication · counterindication · bioindication · subindication · signal indication · paleoindication

Relateds

indicative · indicator · indicate · index

Synonyms

mark · token · tip-off · sign · evidence · mark · demonstration · signal · token · symptom · proof · sign · evidence · patteran

Translations (61)

bg указание (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · nl speciaal teken (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · bg знак (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · mi tūtohu (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · it simbolo (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · fr symbole (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · tl tanda (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · gd fios (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · grc τεκμήριον (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · de Zeichen (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · rm indicaziun (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · fi todiste (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · la index (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · mk знак (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · ru указание (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · fr indication (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · tl indikasyon (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · eo signo (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · hy նշան (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · uk знак (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · got 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌽𐍃 (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · nb mål (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · ko 부호 (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · nb indikasjon (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · mi tūtohi (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · ru знак (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · he סימן (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · ja 記号 (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · fi osoitus (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · de Indiz (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · uk озна́ка (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · it indicazione (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · bg показание (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · pt símbolo (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · es indicación (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · he עות (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · sv tecken (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · pl znak (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · be знак (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · la specimen (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · ro indiciu (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · he סמל (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · hu jel (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · fi merkki (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · grc σημεῖον (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · nn teikn (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · got 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌰 (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · el σύμβολο (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · nn indikasjon (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · cmn 符號 /符号 (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · nb tegn (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · cmn 指示 (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · tl pananda (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · es símbolo (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · hy հայտանիշ (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · txb ṣotri (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · fi merkki (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · de Sonderzeichen (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · pdt Aundiedunk (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen) · ja 符号 (a mark or another symbol used to represent something) · fi viite (a fact that shows that something exists or may happen)