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Indentation   /ɪndˌɛntˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Indentation  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.
(Print.)
(a)
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.
(b)
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.






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"Indentation" Quotes from Famous Books



... on deck were getting delirious in their prophecies, the ship steered a path round two outlying islets, and entered the deep indentation in Lemnos Island, which is the mighty, hill-locked harbour of Mudros. A little French destroyer, pearl-grey in the evening light, steamed past us, and the French sailors waved their arms, and danced a welcome to this troopship of their allies. The Rangoon yelled ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond

... as it neared the sea, and fled down a water lane not over fifteen or twenty feet wide, absolutely walled with impenetrable nipa growths. From this we emerged just as the day played its last spectacular effects, and found ourselves in a deep oval indentation, glassy as an inland lake, whose bosom caught the changing cloud tints like a mirror, and whose deep cool green borders were alive with myriads of delighted birds, skimming, chattering, calling. Half a mile away, at its farther end, the surf leaped frothily over a bar, and beyond ...
— A Woman's Impression of the Philippines • Mary Helen Fee

... people, as of the Negritos, are less constant than those of their skin and hair. The Maori has a long skull; the Sandwich Islander a broad skull. Some, like these, have strong brow ridges; others, like the Dayaks and many Polynesians, have hardly any nasal indentation. ...
— Critiques and Addresses • Thomas Henry Huxley

... some ten feet, worn smooth by the beating of the waves. Holding with his hands to the edge, he let himself fall down this height, and found himself standing, a little shaken though unhurt, in a small pebbly bay or indentation of the shore formed by a curve in the line of cliffs, with a series of headlands and precipices trending away on one side far to his right, and with the Ness of Saint Winifred's reaching out to his left. Once ...
— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar

... see," resumed the captain, pointing to a spot on the chart. "Here is the island of Cuba, and here"—pointing to a little indentation in the coast-line—"are we in latitude 20 north, ...
— Across the Spanish Main - A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess • Harry Collingwood


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