indirect

adj

1. Not direct

   “While not mentioning any of their competitors by name, the CEO made some indirect statements that they were acting immorally.”

   “Se asked him some indirect questions to ascertain whether he was single.”

2. Not direct:

   “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:
4. Not direct:

   “In an effort to beat the traffic jams, they opted to take an indirect route to their destination.”

5. Not direct:
6. Figuratively
7. (archaic)Figuratively

   “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?”

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.”

   “2010, Anna M. Gil-Lafuente and José M. Merigó (editos), Computational Intelligence in Business and Economics Gradually analytical thinking was taking a greater awareness of the importance it took for all the investigation system of the possible identification or traceability of fixed costs and, in general, of the indirects of other times.”

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

1. (transitive)To access by means of indirection; to dereference.

   “The X operations access the data fields by indirecting through the _rep pointer.”

   “These correspond to an indirected parallel write and an indirected parallel read operation respectively.”