Indirect, the opposite of

direct Direct may refer to: Mathematics * Directed set, in order theory * Direct limit of (pre), sheaves * Direct sum of modules, a construction in abstract algebra which combines several vector spaces Computing * Direct access (disambiguation), ...

, may refer to: * Indirect approach, a battle strategy * Indirect DNA damage, caused by UV-photons *

Indirect agonist In 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. Indirect agonists wor ...

or indirect-acting agonist, a substance that enhances the release or action of an endogenous neurotransmitter *

Indirect speech In linguistics, indirect speech (also reported speech or indirect discourse) is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it. For example, the English sentence ''Jill said she was coming' ...

, a form of speech *

Indirect costs Indirect costs are costs that are not directly accountable to a cost object (such as a particular project, facility, function or product). Like direct costs, indirect costs may be either fixed or variable. Indirect costs include administration, p ...

, costs that are not directly accountable to a particular function or product *

Indirect self-reference Indirect self-reference describes an object referring to itself ''indirectly''. For example, define the function f such that f(x) = x(x). Any function passed as an argument to f is invoked with itself as an argument, and thus in any use of that a ...

, describes an object referring to itself indirectly *

Indirect effect Indirect effect is a principle of the European Union (EU) law, whereby national courts of the member states of the EU are required to interpret national law in line with provisions of EU law. The principle of indirect effect contrasts with the pri ...

, a principle of European Community Law *

Indirect finance Indirect 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 i ...

, where borrowers borrow funds from the financial market through indirect means * Indirection, the ability to reference something in computer programming * Indirect transmission, infections passing from one host to another via a different species.

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