Indication and Prompt

Indication

Indication noun - A slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation).

Usage example: there are indications that a medical breakthrough in the treatment of the disease is imminent

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Prompt and indication are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Prompt" instead a noun "Indication".

Prompt noun - A cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken).

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Indication and prompt are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Indication" instead a noun "Prompt".

old	old indication	old prompt
exact	exact indication	exact prompt
brief	brief indication	brief prompt
short	short indication	short prompt
Other adjectives: single, obvious, little, quick, subtle, general, final, further.

The game could only be saved during an automatic prompt before certain plot-relevant scene transitions, with no manual way to save and no indication of when the next one would arrive.

Source: Check Point Starvation
Sewer Shark on the Sega CD has one of the most patently unfair examples: In one cutscene, your player character commands you to fire your gatling gun...and the game expects you to hit the fire button exactly then, with no button prompt or any other indication for actual interactivity.

Source: Press X to Not Die aka: Quick Time Event

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