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indirecting

indirecting is the present participle and gerund of indirect.

Meaning of indirect

Verb

indirect (third-person singular simple present indirects, present participle indirecting, simple past and past participle indirected)

  1. (transitive) To access by means of indirection; to dereference.
    • The X operations access the data fields by indirecting through the _rep pointer.1997, Cay S. Horstmann, Practical Object-Oriented Development in C++ and Java, page 385

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Questions about indirecting

What is indirecting the present participle and gerund of?
Indirecting is the present participle and gerund of indirect.

Words near indirecting in the dictionary

  1. indirect speech
  2. indirect tax
  3. indirect taxes
  4. indirect transitive
  5. indirected
  6. indirecting
  7. indirection
  8. indirections
  9. indirective
  10. indirectivity
  11. indirectly

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