indication

Noun

1. An act of pointing out or indicating.
2. A fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
   • There's no indication that the fire was caused by criminals.
   • All the indications point to drink-driving as the cause of the accident.
   • The frequent stops they make in the most convenient places are plain indications of their weariness. - September 9, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian volume 156

   Synonyms: symptom evidence

3. A mark or another symbol used to represent something.

   Synonyms: mark token sign

4. A discovery made; information.
5. An explanation; a display.
   • For the indication either proceeds from one experiment to another; or else from experiments to axioms; which axioms themselves suggest new experiments. - 1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: Or a Natural History, in Ten...
   • The committee, unknown to the workmen, also followed the next or succeeding mash, which was better made, and obtained the following results: First indication of the saccharometer .. 7⅘ degrees. Last indication of the...
   • 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 combined indication, of the automatic...
6. Any symptom or occurrence in a disease that serves to direct to suitable remedies; the problem that warrants and prompts the use of a diagnostic test, imaging mode, or treatment (e.g., medication, surgical procedure).
   • Influenza and suspected influenza are FDA-approved indications for oseltamivir.
   • In the United States, major depressive disorder is an off-label indication for clomipramine, but in various other countries, it is an approved indication.
   • The theme of treatment failure of previous treatments plus continuing impairment (pain and poor function) appears among the indications for many types of joint replacement surgery.
7. A declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.