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"etymology_text": "From Old French indication, from Latin indicātiō (“a showing, indicating the value of something; valuation”), from indicō (“point out, indicate, show; value”); see indicate; compare French indication, Spanish indicación, Italian indicazione.\nMorphologically indicate + -ion",
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"text": "There's no indication that the fire was caused by criminals.",
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"text": "All the indications point to drink-driving as the cause of the accident.",
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"text": "The frequent stops they make in the most convenient places are plain indications of their weariness.",
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"roman": "zhǐshì",
"sense": "a fact that shows that something exists or may happen",
"word": "指示"
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"sense": "a fact that shows that something exists or may happen",
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"sense": "a fact that shows that something exists or may happen",
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"word": "specimen"
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"sense": "a fact that shows that something exists or may happen",
"word": "tūtohi"
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"sense": "a fact that shows that something exists or may happen",
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"word": "indikasjon"
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"word": "указание"
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"sense": "a fact that shows that something exists or may happen",
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"sense": "a fact that shows that something exists or may happen",
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"roman": "oznáka",
"sense": "a fact that shows that something exists or may happen",
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"A mark or another symbol used to represent something."
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"(rare) A mark or another symbol used to represent something."
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"sense": "a mark or another symbol used to represent something",
"word": "նշան"
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"sense": "a mark or another symbol used to represent something",
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"sense": "a mark or another symbol used to represent something",
"word": "符號"
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"roman": "fúhào",
"sense": "a mark or another symbol used to represent something",
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"word": "speciaal teken"
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"masculine"
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"sense": "a mark or another symbol used to represent something",
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],
"word": "Zeichen"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "a mark or another symbol used to represent something",
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"word": "Sonderzeichen"
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"roman": "sýmvolo",
"sense": "a mark or another symbol used to represent something",
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"sense": "a mark or another symbol used to represent something",
"word": "jel"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "a mark or another symbol used to represent something",
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"alt": "きごう",
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"sense": "a mark or another symbol used to represent something",
"word": "記号"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "buho",
"sense": "a mark or another symbol used to represent something",
"word": "부호"
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"code": "mk",
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"roman": "znak",
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"masculine"
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"word": "знак"
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"sense": "a mark or another symbol used to represent something",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "a mark or another symbol used to represent something",
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"word": "símbolo"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "a mark or another symbol used to represent something",
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"word": "tecken"
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"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "a mark or another symbol used to represent something",
"word": "tanda"
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{
"_dis1": "2 1 91 1 2 2 1",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "a mark or another symbol used to represent something",
"word": "pananda"
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"roman": "znak",
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"Discovery made; information."
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"ref": "1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: Or a Natural History, in Ten Centuries",
"text": "For the indication either proceeds from one experiment to another; or else from experiments to axioms; which axioms themselves suggest new experiments.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1870, USA House of Representatives, House Documents - Volume 12; Volume 265, page 124",
"text": "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 saccharometer ... 1",
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"ref": "1895 November 5, “549,241. Electrical annunciator. Robert L. Hunter, Minneapolis, Minn. Filed Feb. 3, 1894. Serial No. 499,035. (No model.)”, in The Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume 73, number 6, Washington: Government Publishing Office, page 874",
"text": "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 means for holding the circuit closed until all of the indicators in the circuit have made their indications, and then resetting the operated circuit closer ready for another operation.",
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"Explanation; display."
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"(obsolete) Explanation; display."
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"text": "Influenza and suspected influenza are FDA-approved indications for oseltamivir.",
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},
{
"text": "In the United States, major depressive disorder is an off-label indication for clomipramine, but in various other countries, it is an approved indication.",
"type": "example"
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{
"text": "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.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1900, Massachusetts Medical Journal, page 460",
"text": "The first indication he meets by a dose of calomel, 1o to .30 gm., followed, if necessary, by magnesium sulphate in boiled water.",
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"Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which 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)."
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"(medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which 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)."
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"An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading."
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"(finance) An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading."
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"ipa": "/ɪndɪˈkeɪʃən/"
},
{
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