To find something out by an indirect route

Akronim: Indirection

Indirection
To find something out by an indirect route. In computing an indirection
means to look something up referring to something else. For example to get
to an object using a pointer requires the address of the object to first to
read from the pointer (in this case the pointer is being used to indirectly
get the value of the object).

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