Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Indirection \In`di*rec"tion\, n. [Cf. F. indirection.]
   Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.
   ``By indirections find directions out.'' --Shak.

Source : WordNet®

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"

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

indirection
     
         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)