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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline);
[syn: indentation, indenture]

2. the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion;
[syn: pitting, roughness, indentation]

3. the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line;
[syn: indentation, indention, indent, indenture]

4. the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Indentation \In`den*ta"tion\, n. 1. The act of indenting or state of being indented. [1913 Webster] 2. A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc. [1913 Webster] 3. A recess or sharp depression in any surface. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

indentation n 1: a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline) [syn: indentation, indenture] 2: the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion [syn: pitting, roughness, indentation] 3: the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line [syn: indentation, indention, indent, indenture] 4: the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

indentation indent Space and/or tab characters added at the beginning of a line to indicate structure, e.g. indenting a quotation to make it stand out or indenting a block of code controlled by an if statement. Indentation is important in source code for readability. There are a number of different indent styles. Some programming languages go further and use indentation as the main method to represent block structure to the compiler or interpreter, see off-side rule. (2008-10-23)