FromOld Frenchindication, fromLatinindicātiō(“a showing, indicating the value of something; valuation”), fromindicō(“point out, indicate, show; value”); seeindicate; compareFrenchindication,Spanishindicación,Italianindicazione. Bysurface analysis,indicate +-ion.
indication (countable anduncountable,pluralindications)
- Anact ofpointing out orindicating.
- A fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
- Synonyms:symptom,evidence
There's noindication that the fire was caused by criminals.
All theindications point to drink-driving as the cause of the accident.
- September 9, 1713,Joseph Addison,The Guardian volume 156
The frequent stops they make in the most convenient places are plainindications of their weariness.
1834,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, inFrancesca Carrara. […], volume II, London:Richard Bentley, […], (successor toHenry Colburn),→OCLC,page274:Her shrewd eye, accustomed to note the slightestindications, had already marked their likeness to each other, and that ease of affection which belongs to habit and relationship.
1999,Roger Lass, “Phonology and morphology”, inThe Cambridge History of the English Language, volume III,Cambridge:Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,→OCLC, page84:We turn briefly to ME/ɛː/ and/ɔː/. There is little or noindication 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.
- (rare) A mark or another symbol used to represent something.
- Synonyms:mark,token,sign
- Adiscovery made;information.
- (obsolete) Anexplanation; adisplay.
1627, Francis Bacon,Sylva Sylvarum: Or a Natural History, in Ten Centuries:For theindication either proceeds from one experiment to another; or else from experiments to axioms; which axioms themselves suggest new experiments.
1870, USA House of Representatives,House Documents - Volume 12; Volume 265, page124:The committee, unknown to the workmen, also followed the next or succeeding mash, which was better made, and obtained the following results: Firstindication of the saccharometer .. 7⅘ degrees. Lastindication of the saccharometer ... 1
1895 November 5, “549,241.Electrical annunciator.Robert L. Hunter, Minneapolis, Minn. Filed Feb. 3, 1894. Serial No. 499,035. (No model.)”, inThe Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume73, number 6, Washington:Government Publishing Office, page874: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 combinedindication, of the automatic means for holding the circuit closed until all of the indicators in the circuit have made theirindications, and then resetting the operated circuit closer ready for another operation.
- (medicine) Anysymptom oroccurrence in adisease that serves to direct to suitable remedies; theproblem thatwarrants andprompts the use of adiagnostic test,imaging mode, ortreatment (e.g., medication, surgical procedure).
Influenza and suspected influenza are FDA-approvedindications for oseltamivir.
In the United States, major depressive disorder is an off-labelindication for clomipramine, but in various other countries, it is an approvedindication.
The theme of treatment failure of previous treatments plus continuing impairment (pain and poor function) appears among theindications for many types of joint replacement surgery.
1900,Massachusetts Medical Journal, page460:The firstindication he meets by a dose of calomel, 1o to .30 gm., followed, if necessary, by magnesium sulphate in boiled water.
- (finance) A declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.
a fact that shows that something exists or may happen
- Armenian:հայտանիշ (hy)(haytaniš)
- Bulgarian:указание (bg) n(ukazanie),показание (bg) n(pokazanie)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:指示 (zh)(zhǐshì)
- Finnish:merkki (fi),viite (fi),todiste (fi),osoitus (fi)
- French:indication (fr) f
- German:Indiz (de) n
- Gothic:𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌽𐍃 f(taikns),𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐌰 f(bandwa)
- Greek:
- Ancient:σημεῖον n(sēmeîon),τεκμήριον n(tekmḗrion)
- Hebrew:סימן (he) m(simán),עות (he) m(ot)
- Italian:indicazione (it) f
- Latin:index c,specimen n
- Maori:tūtohi,tūtohu
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:indikasjon (no) m,mål (no) n
- Nynorsk:indikasjon m
- Plautdietsch:Aundiedunk f
- Romanian:indiciu (ro) n
- Romansch:indicaziun f
- Russian:указание (ru)(ukazanije)
- Scottish Gaelic:fios m
- Spanish:indicación (es) f
- Tocharian B:ṣotri
- Ukrainian:озна́ка (uk) f(oznáka)
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a mark or another symbol used to represent something
Translations to be checked
- “indication”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “indication”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
FromLatinindicātiōnem. Bysurface analysis,indiquer +-ation.
indication f (pluralindications)
- direction,instruction
- Synonyms:enseignement,instruction
- indication,sign
- Synonym:signe
- indication,information
- Synonyms:information,renseignement
- ahint
