What does indirect mean?
Indirect means Not direct:.
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/ˌɪn.daɪˈɹɛkt/ · adjective
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.
Indirect messages permit communicative contacts when, without them, the alternatives would be total inhibition, silence, and solitude on the one hand, or, on the other, communicative behavior that is direct, offensive, and hence forbidden. This is a painful choice. In actual practice, neither alternative is likely to result in the gratification of personal or sexual needs. In this dilemma, indirect communications provide a useful compromise. As an early move in the dating game, the young man might invite the young woman to dinner or to the movies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Use indirect when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Indirect means Not direct:.
Common synonyms include circuitous, oblique, askance, collateral.
Possible antonyms include direct, lineal.
While not mentioning any of their competitors by name, the CEO made some indirect statements that they were acting immorally.
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