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indirect in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Indirect, the
opposite of direct, may
refer to:
Indirect approach, a
battle strategy Indirect DNA damage...
- In
computer programming, an
indirection (also
called a reference) is a way of
referring to
something using a name, reference, or
container instead of...
- An
indirect election or
hierarchical voting, is an
election in
which voters do not
choose directly among candidates or
parties for an
office (direct voting...
- An
indirect branch (also
known as a
computed jump,
indirect jump and register-
indirect jump) is a type of
program control instruction present in some...
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Indirect injection in an
internal combustion engine is fuel
injection where fuel is not
directly injected into the
combustion chamber.
Gasoline engines...
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Indirect finance is
where borrowers borrow funds from the
financial market through indirect means, such as
through a
financial intermediary. This is different...
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Indirect fire is
aiming and
firing a
projectile without relying on a
direct line of
sight between the gun and its target, as in the case of
direct fire...
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Indirect rule was a
system of
governance used by
imperial powers to
control parts of
their empires. This was
particularly used by
colonial empires like...
- An
indirect tax (such as a
sales tax, per unit tax, value-added tax (VAT),
excise tax,
consumption tax, or tariff) is a tax that is
levied upon
goods and...
- In linguistics,
speech or
indirect discourse is a
grammatical mechanism for
reporting the
content of
another utterance without directly quoting it. For...
