The interpretation of the indicative meaning of Roman fishtanks, for example, plays a critical role in reconstructions of late Holocene Mediterranean sea levels.
Even when considering the limitations of the predominantly 2-dimensional sampling method, these results fundamentally challenge established assumptions on the indicative meaning of sediment wave geometry.
We argue that coastal archaeologists should, as a part of their analyses, incorporate important sea-level concepts, such as indicative meaning.
The algorithm we calculated has an indicative meaning.
The minimum value of the tube length has an indicative meaning, because nanotubes tend to break along their length, forming carbonaceous agglomerates of nanoparticles.
It will be noticed that, in these statutes, the term 'device' is associated with other words indicative of its meaning, and, in the act of March 2 , 1889 the shipper, for falsely acting as to weighing, billing, classifying, or obtaining the transportation of property at less than the regular rate, or by any other device, was deemed guilty of fraud.
Bees are also an indicator species -- meaning their presence, absence, and their well-being is indicative of the health of our environment as a whole.
These are made up of at least two elements, one of which is semantic, or meaning-indicative, and are called significs or, more misleadingly, radicals.
This example can be generalized: many so-called "phonetic" elements in complex Chinese characters also have semantic content, and often are even more meaning-indicative than the signific.
There are resonant ambiguities: "buckle" for example could be imperative or indicative, and it could mean any of three things: to prepare for action (an archaic meaning), to fasten together, or to bend, crumple and nearly break ("buckled like a bicycle wheel" as William Empson remarked when analysing the poem in Seven Types of Ambiguity).
But the paper was shared with an industry association, Food Drink Europe, which immediately complained to the commission in a letter seen by the Guardian, saying that "the terminology 'at least below the indicative value' could be interpreted as meaning that the indicative values are maximum limits".
