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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. Antonym: contraindication.

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

... in Greece (Herod. vii. 145). (iii.) It is improbable that Athens would have sent twenty vessels to the aid of the Ionians in 498 B.C. if at the time she was at war with Aegina. (iv.) There is an incidental indication of time, which points to the period after Marathon as the true date for the events which are referred by Herodotus to the year before Marathon, viz. the thirty years that were to elapse between the dedication of the precinct to Aeacus and the final victory of Athens (Herod. v. ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... were dropping their waxen tears from two lofty silver candelabra. At this table sat a man, looking earnestly at a paper covered with notes of music. He had sat there the whole night long, and his countenance gave no indication of the exhaustion that follows upon night-watching. His large, dark, gray eyes flashed whenever he raised his head thoughtfully, as he frequently did; and when music was born of his thoughts, a smile illuminated his otherwise plain face, and a wonderful light played about his magnificent forehead; ...

— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach

... came within the next few days. Each unit was provided with portable bridges, which were carried under the wagon bodies, and this, and several other preparations, gave us a good indication that we were out for business. A couple of days trekking brought us to the village of Nedonchel, which proved to be another place of happy memory to our Senior Subaltern. Here we were given a rough idea of the part we were to play in the coming proceedings. Two army corps were to ...

— Three years in France with the Guns: - Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery • C. A. Rose

... avoided every indication that might disclose him to be a Scotchman even, nor was there the least sign of suspicion in Andrew's manner. The only solution of the mystery that could have presented itself to him was, that his friends were at the root ...

— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald

... vow of the Nazarite might be taken for a time, or, as in the case of Samson, Samuel, and John, it might be for life. But, whether for shorter or longer, the Nazarite held himself as peculiarly given up to the service of God, pliant to the least indication of his will, quick to catch the smallest whisper of his voice, ...

— John the Baptist • F. B. Meyer

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