Indirect, the opposite of direct, may refer to:
- Indirect approach, a battle strategy
- Indirect self-interest, self-interest which is broader than the self-interest limited to one's personal situation
- Indirect DNA damage, caused by UV-photons
- Indirect agonist or indirect-acting agonist, a substance that enhances the release or action of an endogenous neurotransmitter
- Indirect speech, a form of speech
- Indirect costs, costs that are not directly accountable to a particular function or product
- Indirect self-reference, describes an object referring to itself indirectly
- Indirect effect, a principle of European Community Law
- Indirect finance, 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.
Famous quotes containing the word indirect:
“Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and conscious blasphemy or irreverence; but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“God knows, my son,
By what by-paths and indirect crooked ways
I met this crown.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)