indentation
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- noun
- /ˌɪn.dɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/
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- Microsoft Word has a setting for this: Formats? Paragraph? Indentation? Special? Hanging.
- indentation was 5 mm
- indentation test
Examples
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The diary itself was a dingy school notebook written from cover to cover without indentations or space between the lines.
Fiction book (1997) -
In formal writing, an indentation helps to visually separate sections of text for better readability.
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Because you, you, you turn the page and see just how much indentation has taken place.
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I'm going to give it a little indentation so that we can see this.
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By the way, I have no idea why the indentation is so messed up!
Blog text (20) -
So this is my level of indentation and I'm continuing right along.
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See, there's the indentation.
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For now, Kidder and Liu are puzzling over a mysterious indentation.
Academic text (2011) -
To clearly mark the start of each paragraph, you should use an indentation at the beginning of the line.
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The editor recommended adding an indentation before each new idea to improve the document's structure.
Synonyms
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A blank space at the start of a line to show a new paragraph
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5.3
A small blank space between the margin and the start of a line where the text begins
The space at the start of a line that is moved in from the margin
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Indentation comes from the parts in- ('in') and dent ('tooth' or 'dent'), which together gave the idea of a small cut or notch. Think of the first line of a paragraph as 'pushed in' like a little dent, and that is why an indentation marks the start of a new section.