indirection
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
indirection
<programming> 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)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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