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Verb
/inˈdent/,
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indents, 3rd person singular present; indented, past tense; indenting, present participle; indented, past participle;
  1. Make a dent or depression in (something)
    • - his chin was firm and slightly indented
  2. Impress (a mark) on something

Noun
  1. A space left by indenting a line or block of text

  2. An indentation
    • - every indent in the coastline
  3. An official order or requisition for specified goods or stores

  4. An indenture

  1. set in from the margin; "Indent the paragraphs of a letter"
  2. an order for goods to be exported or imported
  3. indentation: the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
  4. cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication; "indent the documents"
  5. make a depression into; "The bicycle dented my car"
  6. notch the edge of or make jagged
  7. Indent is a live album by Cecil Taylor recorded in Ohio in March 1973 and originally released on Taylor's own Unit Core label as Mysteries and subsequently more widely released on the Arista Freedom label as Indent. ...
  8. indent is a Unix utility that reformats C and C++ code in a user-defined coding style. Support for C++ code is considered experimental.
  9. An indentation may refer to: * A notch, or deep recesses; for instance in a coastline, or a carving in rock * The placement of text farther to the right to separate it from surrounding text.
  10. A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch; A stamp; an impression; A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt; A requisition or order for supplies, ...
  11. (indentation) 1) the extent of deformation by the indentor point of any one of a number of standard hardness testing instruments; 2) a recess in the surface of a hose.
  12. (indentation) Indenting your Prolog code in a standard way is a technique, along with commenting it, to make your code more easily understood (by humans). The standard way to lay out a Prolog procedure is exemplified below, using a procedure to compute the length of a list. ...
  13. (INDENTATION(S)) A term that may be used to describe the shape remaining at the fly of a flag or pennant where that fly has been cut into two or more tails - see ‘swallow-tail(ed)’ (also ‘hussar cut’, ‘palm’, ‘pennant 2)’, ‘swallow-tail and tongue’ and ‘tongues’).
  14. (Indentation) A concentrated panel damage or specific dent that may be caused when a car hits a relatively small obstacle, i.e., the hitch ball of another car
  15. (Indentation) formatting by spacing inward various levels of points.
  16. (INDENTED) [Heraldric] zig-zagged
  17. (Indented) Notched like the teeth of a saw. Applied to partition lines, as well as to some of the ordinaries. It differs from the dancette in that the notches in indented are smaller and apply only to the outer edge, whereas dancette affects the whole ordinary.
  18. Coils are indented usually with the end of the finger, fingernail, or a tool. Usually it is indented clapboard corrugation, rarely indented flattened corrugation. Indentions can be shallow or deep.
  19. Indented means that the edge(s) of whatever is being described have a continuous row of wedge-shaped bites taken out, as if it had been trimmed with pinking shears. the bites are smaller than they would be, if the term dancetty were used.
  20. (Indenting) A format for text in which lines of text are moved relative to the left and right margins, for example, moving the beginning of the first line of a paragraph to the right or left of the rest of the paragraph.
  21. (Indenting) Omission of some stones to allow for future bonding-in work.
  22. (Indents) The positions where lines of text begin and end within the specified margins.
  23. (Indents) The sinkings in one piece of a Scarfed Joint to receive the projections on the other piece.
  24. Used to read in LaTex files. For more see LaTex/Basics.
  25. A requisition for goods, enumerating conditions of the sale. Acceptance constitutes agreement to the conditions of the sale.