indication

From Old French indication, from Latin indicātiō (“a showing, indicating the value of something; valuation”), from indicō (“point out, indicate, show; value”); see indicate; confer French indication, Spanish indicación, Italian indicazione.

• IPA^(key): /ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

indication (countable and uncountable, plural indications)

1. Act of pointing out or indicating.
2. That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence.

   The frequent stops they make in the most convenient places are plain indications of their weariness. (Can we date this quote by Joseph Addison?)

3. Discovery made; information.
4. (obsolete) Explanation; display. (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon?)
5. (medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.
6. (finance) An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.

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• indication in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• indication in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

indiquer +‎ -ation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃/

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indication f (plural indications)

1. direction, instruction
2. indication, sign
3. indication, information
4. a hint

• “indication” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).