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A number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts
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In metadata an indicator is a Boolean value that may contain only the values true or false . The definition of an Indicator must include the meaning of a true value and should also include the meaning if the value is false. If a data element may take another ...
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n. a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time [syn: index , index number , indicant ] a signal for attracting attention a device for showing the operating ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an economic indicator (= something that shows how well the economy of a country is doing, and what is likely to happen to it in the future ) ▪ The main economic indicators show that the economy is still in decline. performance ...
Usage examples of indicator.
X-ray film displayed off to one side and at the blood-pressure indicator, which the anesthetist read off at thirty-second intervals.
According to His teaching, the indicators are in place for the Antichrist to come onto the scene.
When the men on board the SDV saw the indicators that the signal was being sent, they knew the Archerfish was nearby.
For descriptive purposes, we use the terms internal and external to classify the behavioral indicators.
But they still had more than enough bombload and Target Indicators to carry out the mission.
Yossarian bent away from the bombsight crookedly to watch the indicator on his left.
It is rather an opaque, mysterious thing, closed in upon itself, a fragmented mass, its enigma renewed in every interval, which combines here and there with the forms of the world and becomes interwoven with them: so much so that all these elements, taken together, form a network of marks in which each of them may play, and does in fact play, in relation to all the others, the role of content or of sign, that of secret or of indicator.
TV commentary that night featured detailed analysis by criminologists, gastroenterologists, and psychologists on the subject of vomiting in general and whether doing it in the presence of law enforcement is a reliable indicator of guilt.
As the thick transplex hatches opened, the indicator light on my screen flashed.
I talked to Barbara, the life-range indicator showed eight-four, above the hypnotizable range.
I have omitted signature indicators and italicization of the running heads.
For example, it was easy to remove the wires from the air lock indicator lamp and feed their signal into a relay section removed from the calculator, a section which would send a control pulse to the reactors if the air locks were opened twice.
There are no surface traces of any kind, either for platinum itself or for metallogenic indicators.
In the center section of each division is an indicator cock which is used to provide means of recording pressures above and below atmospheric, or of sampling the air-and-gas mixture.
However, I feel obliged to tell you that masking responses is an indicator of the sociopathic personality.