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indication
[ in-di-key-shuhn ]
noun
- anything serving to indicate or point out, as a sign or token.
Synonyms: intimation, portent, hint
- Medicine/Medical. a special symptom or the like that points out a suitable remedy or treatment or shows the presence of a disease.
- an act of indicating.
- the degree marked by an instrument.
indication
/ ˌɪndɪˈkeɪʃən /
noun
- something that serves to indicate or suggest; sign
an indication of foul play
- the degree or quantity represented on a measuring instrument or device
- the action of indicating
- something that is indicated as advisable, necessary, or expedient
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- rein·di·cation noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of indication1
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Example Sentences
The rumor mill has also found indications that Apple may release a second, cheaper new version of the Watch.
The CEO has given no indication he’s ready to retire, but if the 59-year-old Cook moved on tomorrow, look no further than Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams, 57, to take over.
Perhaps the other indications had returned to normal by the time the cardiac MRI and other tests were performed.
This test is an early indication that one of them is shedding the virus, viral shedding starts before symptoms develop.
These early tests often involve 1,000 or fewer people and are mostly designed to provide an indication that a vaccine is safe, not whether it is effective.
If 2014 was any indication, the coming TV schedule is sure to be filled with plenty of water-cooler shows.
While natural color is no indication of quality, it can speak volumes about character.
There is no indication that either side is going to give up.
By contrast, if body language is any indication, Obama and Xi were getting along rather well.
While van der Sloot may well have been cut in Challapaca, there is no reliable indication that he got stabbed in a prison scrum.
In like manner the mouth, from being a bare symbolic indication, gradually takes on form and likeness.
This element of symbolic indication will be found to run through the whole of childish drawing.
Their founder named them Minimos Fratres, as a special indication of humility.
There is every indication that the city was burned and plundered by the wild Welsh tribes sixteen hundred or more years ago.
In such cases the external umbilicus alone affords a certain indication of the position of the future embryo.
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