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What (who) is indentation - definition

EMPTY SPACE AT THE BEGINNING OF A LINE TO SIGNAL THE START OF A NEW PARAGRAPH

Indented; Outdent; Auto indentation; Hanging Indent; Hanging paragraph; Hanging indent; Hanging indentation; Hanging paragraphs; Hanging indents; Hanging indentations; Auto-indentation; Indenting; Indentations; Dedent; Indentation

indentation

n. to make an indentation

Indentation

·noun A recess or sharp depression in any surface.

II. Indentation ·noun The act of indenting or state of being indented.

III. Indentation ·noun The measure of the distance; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems.

IV. Indentation ·noun A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, ·etc.

V. Indentation ·noun 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.

indentation

n.

Notch, jag, dent, bruise, depression.

Wikipedia

Indentation (typesetting)

In the written form of many languages, an indentation or indent 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, unindent and dedent 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), indentation is used just the same, but from the right margin of the paper, where the line begins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation (typesetting)

Examples of use of indentation

1. Another fragment passed through her skull and struck the passenger–side door, leaving an indentation.

2. Canning believes such an indentation is unlikely to have been made by a human.

3. I couldn‘t stop staring at it because it had such a strange indentation.

4. An indentation shows where – perhaps – the heel of a human foot struck the ground more than 4,000 years ago.

5. Now, after several weeks of gentle steam, spray and careful indentation work, Nelson is unveiled once more to the world.