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What (who) is Indicator - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Indicators; Indicator (disambiguation); Indicator (chemistry); Indicator (album)
Indicator
(a) An apparatus for indicating the condition of a distant element, such
as the water level in a reservoir, the temperature of a drying room or
cold storage room or any other datum. They are of the most varied
constructions.
(b) The receiving instrument in a telegraph system is sometimes thus
termed.
indicator
¦ noun
1. a thing that indicates a state or level.
2. a gauge or meter of a specified kind.
3. Brit. a flashing light on a vehicle to show that it is about to change lanes or turn.
4. Brit. an information board or screen in a railway station, airport, etc.
5. Chemistry a compound which changes colour at a specific pH value or in the presence of a particular substance, and can be used to monitor a chemical change.
Indicator
·noun The part of an instrument by which an effect is indicated, as an index or pointer.
II. Indicator ·noun One who, or that which, shows or points out; as, a fare indicator in a street car.
III. Indicator ·noun Any bird of the genus Indicator and allied genera. ·see Honey guide, under Honey.
IV. Indicator ·noun A telltale connected with a hoisting machine, to show, at the surface, the position of the cage in the shaft of a mine, ·etc.
V. Indicator ·noun A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part.
VI. Indicator ·noun That which indicates the condition of acidity, alkalinity, or the deficiency, excess, or sufficiency of a standard reagent, by causing an appearance, disappearance, or change of color, as in titration or volumetric analysis.
VII. Indicator ·noun An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It consists of a small cylinder communicating with the engine cylinder and fitted with a piston which the varying pressure drives upward more or less against the resistance of a spring. A lever imparts motion to a pencil which traces the diagram on a card wrapped around a vertical drum which is turned back and forth by a string connected with the piston rod of the engine. ·see Indicator card (below).
Examples of use of Indicator
1. On indicator after indicator, we have fallen backward.
2. "We found that the strongest indicator of depression is personal strength, while the strongest indicator of recovery, surprisingly, is public strength," Kimche said.
3. The Swissie was also pressured by a weaker–than–expected January reading of the Kof indicator, Switzerland‘s leading economic indicator, with the December data also revised downwards.
4. Capacity usage is a leading indicator for manufacturing industry and an important indicator of economic growth inTurkey, where industrial output grew '.8 percent last year.
5. Capacity usage is a leading indicator for the manufacturing industry and an important indicator of economic growth in Turkey, where industrial output grew '.8 percent last year.