different between indication vs notification

English

Etymology

From Old French indication, from Latin indic?ti? (“a showing, indicating the value of something; valuation”), from indic? (“point out, indicate, show; value”); see indicate; confer French indication, Spanish indicación, Italian indicazione.Morphologically indicate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nd??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

indication (countable and uncountable, plural indications)

1. Act of pointing out or indicating.
2. That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence.
   • September 9, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian volume 156

     The frequent stops they make in the most convenient places are plain indications of their weariness.

3. Discovery made; information.
4. (obsolete) Explanation; display. (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
5. (medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.
6. (finance) An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.

Related terms

• index
• indicate
• indicator
• indicative

Translations

Further reading

• indication in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• indication in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Latin indic?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.di.ka.sj??/

Noun

indication f (plural indications)

1. direction, instruction
2. indication, sign
3. indication, information
4. a hint

Related terms

• indiquer

Further reading

• “indication” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle French notification, from Old French notificacion, from Latin notificatio.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n??t?f??ke???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?no?t?f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

notification (countable and uncountable, plural notifications)

1. (uncountable) The act of notifying.
2. (countable) A specific piece of information that serves to notify.

   My computer popped up a notification about Daylight Saving Time.

   1. (countable) A text message on a cell phone.

Translations

Anagrams

• tonification

French

Pronunciation

Noun

notification f (plural notifications)

1. notification