What is the meaning of Indirect?

Not direct:

1. Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.

   Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.

   Not focused straight at the target or subject; whose true aim appears secondary or obscure.

   Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path; oblique.

   Employing argument by contradiction; making use the law of the excluded middle; arguing via the contrapositive.

   Figuratively

   1. Not straightforward, fair, or honest; corrupt.

   Not straightforward, fair, or honest; corrupt.

   An indirect cost.

   An indirect radiator.

   To access by means of indirection; to dereference.

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   Source: wiktionary.org