Indirect
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Indirect, the opposite of direct, may refer to:
- Indirect approachIndirect approachThe Indirect approach was a strategy described and chronicled by B. H. Liddell Hart after World War I, was Liddell Hart's attempt to find a solution to the problem of high casualty rates in conflict zones with high force to space ratios, such as the Western Front on which he served. The strategy...
, a battle strategy - Indirect self-interest, self-interest which is broader than the self-interest limited to one's personal situation
- Indirect DNA damageIndirect DNA damageIndirect DNA damage occurs when a UV-photon is absorbed in the human skin by a chromophore that does not have the ability to convert the energy into harmless heat very quickly. Molecules that do not have this ability have a long lived excited state. This long lifetime leads to a high probability...
, caused by UV-photons - Indirect agonistIndirect agonistIn pharmacology, an indirect agonist or indirect-acting agonist is a substance that enhances the release or action of an endogenous neurotransmitter but has no specific agonist activity at the neurotransmitter receptor itself...
or indirect-acting agonist, a substance that enhances the release or action of an endogenous neurotransmitter - Indirect speechIndirect speechIn grammar, indirect or reported speech is a way of reporting a statement or question. A reported question is called an indirect question. Unlike direct speech, indirect speech does not phrase the statement or question the way the original speaker did; instead, certain grammatical categories are...
, a form of speech - Indirect costsIndirect costsIndirect costs are costs that are not directly accountable to a cost object . Indirect costs may be either fixed or variable. Indirect costs include taxes, administration, personnel and security costs, and are also known as overhead.There are two types of Indirect Costs...
, costs that are not directly accountable to a particular function or product - Indirect self-referenceIndirect self-referenceIndirect self-reference describes an object referring to itself indirectly.For example, define the function f such that f = "x". Any function passed as an argument to f is invoked with itself as an argument, and thus in any use of that argument is indirectly referring to itself.This example is...
, describes an object referring to itself indirectly - Indirect effectIndirect effectIndirect effect describes a situation where national courts are required to interpret national law in line with an unimplemented or badly implemented directive, as opposed to ignoring national law in preference to the directive as occurs when direct effect is invoked...
, a principle of European Community Law - Indirect financeIndirect financeIndirect finance is where borrowers borrow funds from the financial market through indirect means, such as through a financial intermediary. This is different from direct financing where there is a direct connection to the financial markets as indicated by the borrower issuing securities directly...
, where borrowers borrow funds from the financial market through indirect means - IndirectionIndirectionIn computer programming, indirection is the ability to reference something using a name, reference, or container instead of the value itself. The most common form of indirection is the act of manipulating a value through its memory address. For example, accessing a variable through the use of a...
, the ability to reference something in computer programming - Indirect transmissionTransmission (medicine)In medicine and biology, transmission is the passing of a communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a conspecific individual or group, regardless of whether the other individual was previously infected...
, infections passing from one host to another via a different species.