Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of indenting.
- n. The condition of being indented.
- n. The blank space between a margin and the beginning of an indented line.
- n. A notch or jagged cut in an edge.
- n. A recess, as in a border or coastline.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small hollow or depression; a dent or slight pit, as from a blow or from pressure; an impressed cavity: as, the indentations in a battered shield.
- n. The act of indenting, or the state of being indented; the act of notching, or of cutting into points or inequalities like a row of teeth.
- n. A cut or notch in a margin; a recess or depression.
- n. In printing. See indention.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of indenting or state of being indented.
- n. A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.
- n. A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
- n. The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.
- n. A measure of the distance from the flush line; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of indenting or state of being indented.
- n. A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything
- n. A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
- n. The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.
- n. The measure of the distance.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)
- n. the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
- n. the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion
- n. the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions
Examples
“In the indentation is a bit of cheese and a fresh fried egg.”
“A paragraph is indicated in print by what is known as the indentation of the line, that is, by commencing it a space from the left margin.”
“Within the indentation is a thumb side wheel which functions as an application switcher-essentially Alt+Tab on steroids attached to a thumb control.”
“Now, if somebody, for example, were to put the stylus through the hole next to Al Gore's name, and then they're making up their mind whether they want to carry through with that and actually vote for him, and then decide you know what -- I'm a Democratic, but I just don't like this guy -- and they pull the stylus out, could that leave the kind of indentation you're talking about?”
“And basically, he applied the same standard we did, and that is, if there was some kind of indentation that was consistent throughout the ballot -- didn't have to cover the whole ballot, but as long as there was enough to show a pattern that this is how the voter voted, then we would go ahead and count that as a vote.”
“In recording the measurements of the bore in extreme proof and after service, distinguish between "indentation," which is the depression at the "seat of the shot," which is always below, and the "wear of the bore," which is generally above, and increase of bore, or”
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
“This place was a kind of indentation in the side of a precipitous butte, above which the cliff (if it may be so called) arched over part way like a canopy.”
“Down below, a mile, perhaps, a rocky point juts out into the river, up above another, so this forms a kind of indentation, an exclusive sort of bay for the dwellers therein, and the whole rather aristocratic settlement is put down on the railway map as Grandon Park.”
“One window looked out on it, but the door was in a kind of indentation in it round the corner.”
“The code formatting, such as indentation and brace placement, is not always consistent (e.g., pages 81 and 116).”
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mollusque Use "& n b s p;" without the spaces or quotation marks to add one space at a time. I don't know if there's an easier way. Nov 16, 2008
Prolagus I remember a conversation somewhere on Wordie on how to do them here. Can anyone help me? Nov 16, 2008