indication
anything serving to indicate or point out, as a sign or token.
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.
Origin of indication
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- re·in·di·ca·tion, noun
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How to use indication in a sentence
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.
College athletes show signs of possible heart injury after COVID-19 | Aimee Cunningham | September 11, 2020 | Science NewsThis test is an early indication that one of them is shedding the virus, viral shedding starts before symptoms develop.
A New Kind of College Exam: UCSD Is Testing Sewage for COVID-19 | Randy Dotinga | September 7, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoThese 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.
Trump wants a COVID-19 vaccine by Election Day. But will one be ready? | Jeremy Kahn | September 4, 2020 | Fortune
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.
Why Natural Color Is So Crucial To Understanding A Whisky’s Flavors | | December 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere is no indication that either side is going to give up.
Intifada 3.0: Growing Unrest and a Plot to Kill an Israeli Minister | Creede Newton | November 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBy 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.
Did Joran Van Der Sloot Fake His Prison Shanking? | Andrea Zarate, Barbie Latza Nadeau | November 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn like manner the mouth, from being a bare symbolic indication, gradually takes on form and likeness.
Children's Ways | James SullyThis element of symbolic indication will be found to run through the whole of childish drawing.
Children's Ways | James SullyTheir 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.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyIn such cases the external umbilicus alone affords a certain indication of the position of the future embryo.
British Dictionary definitions for indication
/ (ˌɪndɪˈkeɪʃən) /
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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