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Indirect

//ˌɪndaɪˈɹɛkt// adj, noun, verb

Adjective

1
Not direct
"While not mentioning any of their competitors by name, the CEO made some indirect statements that they were acting immorally."
2
Not direct:; Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.
"The direct result of socialising every day in the bars may be happiness and meeting new people, but the indirect results could be addiction, or even poverty."
3
Not direct:; Not focused straight at the target or subject; whose true aim appears secondary or obscure.
4
Not direct:; Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path; oblique.
"In an effort to beat the traffic jams, they opted to take an indirect route to their destination."
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Not direct:; Employing argument by contradiction; making use the law of the excluded middle; arguing via the contrapositive.

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Figuratively; Not straightforward, fair, or honest; corrupt. archaic
"Did you, by indirect, and forced courſes / Subdue, and poyſon this tong Maides affections? / Or came it by requeſt, and ſuch faire queſtion / As ſoule, to ſoule affordeth?"

Adjective

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not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination wordnet
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extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action wordnet
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having intervening factors or persons or influences wordnet
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descended from a common ancestor but through different lines wordnet
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not as a direct effect or consequence wordnet

Noun

1
An indirect cost.
"In the case of a piece of equipment such as a pump, the supplier's costs may be broken down into the directs of labour, material, and component costs on the one hand, and the indirects of customized engineering, sales, factory overheads, and order management costs on the other."
2
An indirect radiator.
"Indirect radiators are seldom installed except for rooms on the first or second floors; and in the former case the duct, D, is very short, and in the latter it is usually from 12 to 16 feet long. It should be stated in this connection that indirects of large size should be spread out as much as possible so as to give a large area against the current of air."

Verb

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To access by means of indirection; to dereference. transitive
"The X operations access the data fields by indirecting through the _rep pointer."

Etymology 1

From Middle French indirect, from Late Latin indirectus (“not direct”).

Etymology 2

From Middle French indirect, from Late Latin indirectus (“not direct”).

Etymology 3

From Middle French indirect, from Late Latin indirectus (“not direct”).

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