indirect

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English

Etymology

From Middle French indirect, from Late Latin indirectus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɪndaɪˈɹɛkt/, /ˌɪndɪˈɹɛkt/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌɪndəˈɹɛkt/, /ˌɪndaɪˈɹɛkt/
• Rhymes: -ɛkt

Adjective

indirect (comparative more indirect, superlative most indirect)

1. Not direct:
   1. Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.

   2. Not focused straight at the target or subject; whose true aim appears secondary or obscure.
   3. Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path; oblique.

   4. (mathematics, logic, of a proof) Employing argument by contradiction; making use the law of the excluded middle; arguing via the contrapositive.
2. Figuratively
   1. (archaic) Not straightforward, fair, or honest; corrupt.

Antonyms

• direct

Derived terms

Related terms

• indirection

Translations

Noun

indirect (plural indirects)

1. (finance) An indirect cost.
   • 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

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.

Anagrams

• indicter, reindict

French

Etymology

From in- +‎ direct.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.di.ʁɛkt/

Adjective

indirect (feminine indirecte, masculine plural indirects, feminine plural indirectes)

1. indirect

Derived terms

• discours indirect
• mesure indirecte
• objet indirect

Further reading

• “indirect”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French indirect, from Latin indirectus. Equivalent to in- +‎ direct.

Adjective

indirect m or n (feminine singular indirectă, masculine plural indirecți, feminine and neuter plural indirecte)

1. indirect

Declension