indication

Meaning

Noun

• Act of pointing out or indicating.
• That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence.
• Discovery made; information.
• Explanation; display.
• Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.
• An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.

Origin

• From Old French indication, from Latin indicātiō ("a showing, indicating the value of something; valuation"), from indicō; see indicate; confer French indication, Spanish indicación, Italian indicazione.
• Morphologically indicate + -ion