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Definition of Indirection

1. Noun. Indirect procedure or action. "He tried to find out by indirection"

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

Definition of Indirection

1. n. Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.

Definition of Indirection

1. Noun. A lack of direction; deviousness or aimlessness ¹

2. Noun. (computing) Use of a variable or object through its address ¹

3. Noun. An indirect action or process. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Indirection

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indirection

indirect pupillary reaction indirect quotation indirect quotations indirect rays indirect reacting bilirubin indirect request indirect retainer indirect retention indirect speech indirect tax

indirect technique indirect transfusion indirect transmission indirect vision indirected indirection (current term) indirections indirectly indirectness indirectnesses

indiretin indirubin indiscernibility indiscernibility of identicals indiscernible indiscernibles indisciplinable indiscipline indisciplined indisciplines

Literary usage of Indirection

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"indirection, *. That which is not straight or direct. Apt»». FQ, IV, i, 30. By indirections find directions out. Haml., ii, 1. This was probably intended as ..."

2. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1921)
"Johnson defines the term indirect to mean, wrong, improper, not fair nor honest ; and indirection he explains to be dishonest practice, but observes that it ..."

3. Getting the Most Out of Business: Observations of the Application of the by Elias St. Elmo Lewis (1919)
"The Discipline of indirection The discipline of indirection is illustrated by placing a man in an atmosphere where he can do his work only in the right way, ..."

4. Story-telling, Questioning and Studying, Three School Arts by Herman Harrell Horne (1916)
""In vain is the net indirection spread in the sight of any bird." This is more important as the children grow older. The moral that is appended is an ..."

5. A Text-book of Sociology by James Quayle Dealey, Lester Frank Ward (1905)
"(6) Moral indirection: 293. Principal forms of deception : 294. Against animals. 295. Against inferior human beings. 296. In various kinds of occupations. ..."

6. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, William Horace Hotchkiss, Frank Bixby Gilbert, Fred Eugene Rosbrook (1921)
"... of a chattel mortgage within the four month period is not a transfer of property within the meaning of this section.101* (II) Transfer by indirection. ..."

7. The Law of Railways: Embracing the Law of Corporations, Eminent Domain by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1888)
"Will restrain company from taking lands by indirection. 3. Will restrain company, when exceeding its powers. 4. If company has power to traverse highways, ..."

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