Indication
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Act of pointing out or indicating. That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence. Discovery made; information. Explanation; display. Francis Bacon. Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies. An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.
Example sentence: I don't think the disruptor and the business model of a disruptor necessarily is an indication of the topography of the future. If it did, you would say then that everyone will make high-end electric cars, when the answer is clearly no.
Denotation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotesThe primary, literal or explicit meaning of a word, phrase or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.The intension and extension of a wordSomething signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbolThe surface or literal meaning encoded to a signifier, and the definition most likely to appear in a dictionaryAny mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semanticsA first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.