"indirect" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˌɪndaɪˈɹɛkt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌɪndɪˈɹɛkt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌɪndəˈɹɛkt/ [Canada, General-American], /ˌɪndaɪˈɹɛkt/ [Canada, General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-indirect.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more indirect [comparative], most indirect [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɛkt Etymology: From Middle French indirect, from Late Latin indirectus. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|indirect}} Middle French indirect, {{der|en|LL.|indirectus}} Late Latin indirectus Head templates: {{en-adj}} indirect (comparative more indirect, superlative most indirect)
  1. Not direct:
    Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.
    Sense id: en-indirect-en-adj-ECtn8bim
  2. Not direct:
    Not focused straight at the target or subject; whose true aim appears secondary or obscure.
    Sense id: en-indirect-en-adj-I3ta5YP9
  3. Not direct:
    Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path; oblique.
    Sense id: en-indirect-en-adj-Wlm~dsUj
  4. Not direct:
    (mathematics, logic, of a proof) Employing argument by contradiction; making use the law of the excluded middle; arguing via the contrapositive.
    Categories (topical): Logic, Mathematics
    Sense id: en-indirect-en-adj-n88p2Z7E Topics: human-sciences, logic, mathematics, philosophy, sciences
  5. Figuratively
    Sense id: en-indirect-en-adj-a~TpbpDZ
  6. Figuratively
    (archiac) Not straightforward, fair, or honest; corrupt.
    Tags: archaic, error-misspelling
    Sense id: en-indirect-en-adj-fO-Lojk~
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: indirection Translations (not direct): непряк (neprjak) (Bulgarian), косвен (kosven) (Bulgarian), indirecte (Catalan), andhidro (Cornish), nepřímý (Czech), onrechtstreeks (Dutch), indirect (Dutch), nerekta (Esperanto), epäsuora (Finnish), välillinen (Finnish), indirect (French), indirecto [feminine] (Galician), indirekt (German), έμμεσος (émmesos) [masculine] (Greek), indirekt (Hungarian), közvetett (Hungarian), indiretto (Italian), obliquus (Latin), porowhawhe (Maori), pośredni (Polish), indireto (Portuguese), ко́свенный (kósvennyj) (Russian), непрямо́й (neprjamój) (Russian), nepriamy (Slovak), indirecto (Spanish), anuniongyrchol (Welsh)

Noun

IPA: /ˌɪndaɪˈɹɛkt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌɪndɪˈɹɛkt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌɪndəˈɹɛkt/ [Canada, General-American], /ˌɪndaɪˈɹɛkt/ [Canada, General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-indirect.wav [Southern-England] Forms: indirects [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛkt Etymology: From Middle French indirect, from Late Latin indirectus. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|indirect}} Middle French indirect, {{der|en|LL.|indirectus}} Late Latin indirectus Head templates: {{en-noun}} indirect (plural indirects)
  1. (finance) An indirect cost. Categories (topical): Finance
    Sense id: en-indirect-en-noun-WzVfIV0W Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 9 7 14 0 6 27 2 17 Topics: business, finance
  2. An indirect radiator
    Sense id: en-indirect-en-noun-P8wK~Mpl

Verb

IPA: /ˌɪndaɪˈɹɛkt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌɪndɪˈɹɛkt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌɪndəˈɹɛkt/ [Canada, General-American], /ˌɪndaɪˈɹɛkt/ [Canada, General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-indirect.wav [Southern-England] Forms: indirects [present, singular, third-person], indirecting [participle, present], indirected [participle, past], indirected [past]
Rhymes: -ɛkt Etymology: From Middle French indirect, from Late Latin indirectus. Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|indirect}} Middle French indirect, {{der|en|LL.|indirectus}} Late Latin indirectus Head templates: {{en-verb}} indirect (third-person singular simple present indirects, present participle indirecting, simple past and past participle indirected)
  1. (programming, transitive) To access by means of indirection; to dereference. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Programming
    Sense id: en-indirect-en-verb-W12PEH7t Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Programming"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1997, Cay S. Horstmann, Practical Object-Oriented Development in C++ and Java, page 385",
          "text": "The X operations access the data fields by indirecting through the _rep pointer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Geerd-R. Hoffmann, Dimitris K. Maretis, The Dawn of Massively Parallel Processing in Meteorology",
          "text": "These correspond to an indirected parallel write and an indirected parallel read operation respectively.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To access by means of indirection; to dereference."
      ],
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          "programming",
          "programming#Noun"
        ],
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          "access"
        ],
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          "indirection",
          "indirection"
        ],
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          "dereference"
        ]
      ],
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      ],
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        "transitive"
      ],
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        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
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        "programming",
        "sciences"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɪndɪˈɹɛkt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌɪndəˈɹɛkt/",
      "tags": [
        "Canada",
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˌɪndaɪˈɹɛkt/",
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        "Canada",
        "General-American"
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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}

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