Crossword clues for indentation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indentation \In`den*ta"tion\, n.
The act of indenting or state of being indented.
A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.
A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
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(Print.)
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.
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The measure of the distance; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems.
Hanging indentation, or Reverse indentation, indentation of all the lines of a paragraph except the first, which is a full line; also called a hanging indent.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1728, of margins or edges, extended form of indent (n.). Meaning "action of making a dent or impression" is from 1847.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of indenting or state of being indented. 2 A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc. 3 A recess or sharp depression in any surface. 4 (cx typography English) 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. 5 A measure of the distance from the flush line; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems.
WordNet
n. a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline) [syn: indenture]
the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion [syn: pitting, roughness]
the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line [syn: indent, indenture]
the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions
Wikipedia
In the written form of many languages, an indentation is an empty space at the beginning of a line to signal the start of a new paragraph. Many computer languages have adopted this technique to designate "paragraphs" or other logical blocks in the program.
For example, the following lines are indented, using between one and six spaces:
This paragraph is indented by 1 space.
This paragraph is indented by 3 spaces.
This paragraph is indented by 6 spaces.
In computer programming, the neologisms outdent and unindent are used to describe the reversal of the indentation process, realigning text with the page margin (or with previous, lesser, levels of indentation).
In right-to-left languages (e.g., Hebrew and Arabic), identation is used just the same, but from the right margin of the paper, where the line begins.
Indentation may refer to:
- A notch, or deep recess; for instance in a coastline, or a carving in rock
- Indentation (typesetting), the placement of text farther to the right, or left, to separate it from surrounding text.
- Indent style, in programming a convention governing the indentation of blocks of code to convey the program's structure
- Indentation hardness, as applied in hardness measurement.
Usage examples of "indentation".
The three men looked at it, appraisingly, and all saw it at the same instant: in the middle of the forehead, the eyeless head showed an indentation.
And since seeing that I have imagined Jacques Cartier in 1535 looking off to the southeast, when his disappointed vision of the west had tired his eyes, and catching first sight of these dim indentations of his sky, the White Mountains, which the colonists from England did not see until a century later and then only from their ocean side.
The centre point and the six legs, as you call them, are indentations.
When I grazed my fingernail down the title page, I could feel the letterpress indentations.
His hand enveloped hers, the pads of his fingers rubbing back and forth over her soft skin and he knew every indentation.
The relative indentations of Poems, Epitaphs, and Songs are as printed in the original book.
Teeg pushed her on, and they descended the shallow, steplike indentations.
As his long sensitive fingers passed over the wedge-shaped indentations in its surface, as he read it in the dark, the discomforts and ugliness of his surroundings faded.
News photographers snapped pictures of the strange footprints and the indentations made by the landing gear.
How graciously the water makes into the land, following the indentations, and flowing in little streams, going in and withdrawing gently and regretfully, and how the shore puts itself out in low points, wooing the embrace of the sea--a lovely union.
The eastern coast, with its ragged outline of bays, headlands, indentations, islands, capes, and sand-spits, from Watch Hill, a favorite breezy resort, to Mount Desert, presents an almost continual chain of hotels and summer cottages.
What might be left, besides the words, indentations and ink on paper, after so many years?
Marked depression of prints suggests indentations made by pressure of knees.
Wood shavings found in indentations mentioned in item 4 and under window were identical to shavings in coffin.
In the periscope screen Grimes could see a great circular patch of dead growth to mark where she had stood, with three deep indentations where the vanes had dug into the sod.