Indirection

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Indirection \In`di*rec"tion\, n. [Cf. F. indirection.]
     Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.
     "By indirections find directions out." --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  indirection
       n 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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  137 Moby Thesaurus words for "indirection":
     aberrancy, aberration, ambages, artfulness, bend, bias,
     branching off, cheat, chicane, chicanery, circling, circuition,
     circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation,
     circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumflexion,
     circumlocution, circummigration, circumnavigation, corner,
     corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, craft, criminality, crook,
     crookedness, crosswiseness, cunning, curve, deceit, deceitfulness,
     declination, deflection, deflexure, departure, detour, deviance,
     deviancy, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, digression, dirt,
     discursion, dishonesty, dishonor, divagation, divarication,
     divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, double-dealing, drift,
     drifting, dupery, duplicity, errantry, evasiveness, excursion,
     excursus, exorbitation, falseheartedness, falseness, feloniousness,
     fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, furtiveness, guile, gyre, gyring,
     hairpin, hanky-panky, hypocrisy, improbity, indirectness,
     insidiousness, meandering, nonconformity, obliqueness, obliquity,
     orbit, orbiting, pererration, periphrase, periphrasis, rambling,
     roundaboutness, rounding, shadiness, sheer, shift, shiftiness,
     shifting, shifting course, shifting path, skew, skewness, slant,
     slipperiness, sneak attack, sneakiness, spiral, spiraling, squint,
     straying, surreptitiousness, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging,
     tack, transverseness, treacherousness, trickiness, turn, turning,
     twist, unconscientiousness, underhandedness, unsavoriness,
     unscrupulousness, unstraightforwardness, vagary, variation, veer,
     wandering, warp, wheeling, yaw, zigzag
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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)