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Indentation   /ɪndˌɛntˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Indentation

noun
1.
A concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline).  Synonym: indenture.
2.
The formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion.  Synonyms: pitting, roughness.
3.
The space left between the margin and the start of an indented line.  Synonyms: indent, indention, indenture.
4.
The act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions.






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"Indentation" Quotes from Famous Books



... in parallel columns with English on the left. For this e-text the English and the Latin are shown in small blocks with differing indentation. Line breaks are approximately but not exactly the same ...
— The Orbis Pictus • John Amos Comenius

... migratory peoples swept ever southward and westward, seeking room for expansion and economic independence, a series of frontiers was gradually thrust out toward the wilderness in successive waves of irregular indentation. The true leader in this westward advance, to whom less than his deserts has been accorded by the historian, is the drab and mercenary trader with the Indians. The story of his enterprise and of his adventures ...
— The Conquest of the Old Southwest • Archibald Henderson

... here noticed a fact with regard to the ivy which had often puzzled me; and that is, the different shapes of its leaves in the different stages of its growth. The young ivy has this leaf; but when it has become more than a century old every trace and indentation melts away, and it assumes this form, which I found afterwards to be the invariable shape of all the oldest ivy, in all the ruins ...
— Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 (of 2) • Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe

... brother, as the dash of the waves will hollow out some little indentation on the coast, and make it larger and larger until there is a great bay, with its headlands miles apart, and its deep bosom stretching far into the interior, and all the expanse full of flashing waters and leaping waves, so the giving Christ works a place ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren

... ground, supporting himself on his right arm. It is remarkable for its stern realism. The pain and sense of defeat comes out in every feature. Moreover, the nationality of the fallen warrior is clearly expressed in the deep indentation between the heavy brow and the prominent nose, in the face, shaven, except the upper lip, in the uncouth, fleshy body, in the rough hands and feet. Usually the artist preferred to hint at the race by some peculiarities of costume. Here nothing but uncompromising realism of feature will satisfy ...
— TITLE • AUTHOR

... heaviest armor; and how to construct armor which shall be proof against the heaviest shot. Many saw with interest in the Machinery Building at the Centennial the eight-inch armor-plating made by Cammell of Sheffield, tested in one case by nine spherical shots overlapping, making an indentation of 3.12 inches with balls from a seven-inch gun driven by thirty pounds of powder at a range of seventy feet. They are here again, and so is the nine-inch armor with a much deeper indentation from a chilled Palisser ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various



Words linked to "Indentation" :   concavity, corrosion, place, roughness, notch, indenture, pitting, incurvature, corroding, blank space, cleft, indent, indention, erosion, concave shape, change of shape, space, incurvation



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