Definition of "indication"

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

Her shrewd eye, accustomed to note the slightest indications, had already marked their likeness to each other, and that ease of affection which belongs to habit and relationship.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 274

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 Centuries

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

1870, USA House of Representatives, House Documents - Volume 12; Volume 265, page 124

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.

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

The first indication he meets by a dose of calomel, 1o to .30 gm., followed, if necessary, by magnesium sulphate in boiled water.

1900, Massachusetts Medical Journal, page 460