Indirection

In computer programming, indirection (also called dereferencing) is the ability to reference something using a name, reference, or container instead of the value itself

This is essentially everywhere. The primary example is pointers.

The difference between indirection and [[abstraction]] is pretty muddy. One take that makes the most sense to me is that abstraction is about simplification, and indirection is about location. In this sense, indirection is a special type of abstraction.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/111756/what-is-the-difference-between-layer-of-abstraction-and-level-of-indirection

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