Indirection

Definitions: Indirection

Indirection

Noun

1. Indirect procedure or action; "he tried to find out by indirection".

2. Deceitful action that is not straightforward; "he could see through the indirections of diplomats".

Date "indirection" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Etymology: Indirection \In`di*rec"tion\, noun. [Compare to the French expression indirection.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Indirection Manipulating data via its address. Indirection is a powerful and general programming technique. It can be used for example to process data stored in a sequence of consecutive memory locations by maintaining a pointer to the current item and incrementing it to point to the next item. Indirection is supported at the machine language level by indirect addressing. Many processor and operating system architectures use vectors which are also an instance of indirection, being locations which hold the address of a routine to handle a particular event. The event handler can be changed simply by pointing the vector at a new piece of code. C includes operators "&" which returns the address of a variable and its inverse "*" which returns the variable at a given address. (1997-02-06). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
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In computer programming, indirection is the act of manipulating a value through its address. For example, accessing a variable through the use of a pointer to it is a type of indirection (often called dereferencing).

In the C/C++ programming languages, the asterisk (*) is the indirection operator. When placed before a pointer, it refers to the value pointed to.

A stored pointer that exists to provide a reference to an object by double indirection is called an indirection node.

Crosswords: Indirection

English words defined with "indirection": circuitous ♦ roundabout. (references)

Specialty definitions using "indirection": Beating about the Bush ♦ chase pointers ♦ Ferranti F100-L ♦ haul road ♦ indirect address ♦ Motorola 68020. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Awareness of Indirection (reference) Dynamics of Detour: Codes of Indirection in Montaigne, Pascal, Racine, Guilleragues (reference) Philosophical Rhetoric: The Function of Indirection in Philosophical Writing (reference) (more book examples)
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"Indirection" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Indirection" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	31	62,296

Expression using "indirection": by indirection. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "indirection"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		veprim i tërthortë, pandershmëri (dishonesty, fraudulence, fraudulency, improbity, knavery). (various references)

Bulgarian		околни средства, околни пътища, намек (allusion, cue, dig, feeler, half word, hint, inkling, insinuation, intimation, office, pointer, side glance, suggestion, tip off, wink), извъртане (chicane, dodge, dodgery, equivocation, evasion, jugglery, legerdemain, quibble, salvo, shuffle, taradiddle, tergiversation, torsion, twist), измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist). (various references)

Chinese		间接 (Circumstantial, indirect, Mediately). (various references)

German		umweg (detour, deviation, diversion, diverted route, indirect route, roundabout way). (various references)

Greek		πλάγια μέσα. (various references)

Hungarian		kerülõút (bypass, detour, roundabout). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"接 (indirectness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		か�"せつ (alluding, allusion, governmentally or nationally established or run, indirectness, joints, segment, snow-capped peak). (various references)

Pig Latin		indirectionay

Portuguese		vias indiretas, tributação indireta (indirect lighting), dolo (bad faith, cantrip, deceit, fraud, hoax, inveracity, mystification), desonestidade (dishonesty, immorality, impromptu, knavery, obliquity, shuffle, untruth). (various references)

Romanian		nesinceritate (disingenuousness, insincerity), cã ocolire. (various references)

Russian		косвенность. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zaobilazak (bypass, circumvention, detour). (various references)

Spanish		tortuosidad. (various references)

Swedish		indirekt (by indirection, circuitous, collateral, implicit, implied, indirect, indirectly, mediate, oblique, round about). (various references)

Turkish		dolaylı yol (bypath), dolaylı söz (indirect speech), doğru olmayan davranış, üçkâğıtçılık (confidence game, confidence trick, highway robbery, knavery, shell game, skulduggery, swindling, trick, trickery, wiliness). (various references)

Vietnamese		thói gian lận sự không có mục đích, thói bất lương, sự không có phương hướng, h� nh động gián tiếp thói quanh co. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "indirection": indirections. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Indirection" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Indalecio, indirecti. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "indirection" (pronounced 'In`di*rec"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-i-n-n-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: interionic.
	-2 letters: direction, incondite, indiction, noncredit, rendition.
	-3 letters: centroid, citrinin, dioritic, doctrine, incident, indentor, indicter, indictor, indirect, nicotine, reindict, retinoid.
	-4 letters: cinerin, citrine, cointer, coniine, contend, cordite, crinite, crinoid, ctenoid, deontic, dictier, diction, dineric, dinitro, diorite, donnert, edition, ericoid, identic, idiotic, incited, inciter, inditer, intoned, intoner, neritic, nicotin, nitride, noritic, noticed, noticer, oneiric, ternion.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-i-i-n-n-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: indirections, indiscretion, interdiction.
	+2 letters: indiscretions, interdictions.
	+3 letters: reconditioning, unidirectional.
	+4 letters: denitrification, inconsideration, omnidirectional, preconditioning.
	+5 letters: antireductionism, antireductionist, denitrifications, inconsiderations, nondeterministic, unidirectionally.
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