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
(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
The distance by which a segment of text is offset from the usual left-hand margin The beginnings of paragraphs are often (but not always) indented by from one to three ems (An em is the width of a capital M in the current font ) Itemised text is also usually indented, often by the standard paragraph indentation Such indented text is often used to visually demarcate a section of text from the main running text
{i} blank space left between a margin and the beginning of a printed or written line; act of indenting a document; groove; deep recess, niche; dent, notch
the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)
Indentation means blank space at the beginning of a line Most programming languages have conventions for using indentation to illuminate the structure of the program, and Emacs has special commands to adjust indentation See section 18 Indentation
a way of indenting to clearly show that a block of code is a separate thought (from other pieces of code surrounding it) for example, if (a eq b) then print *, ' a is equal to b' else print *, ' a is not equal to b' end if is clearer and easier to read than is if (a eq b) then print *, ' a is equal to b' else print *, ' a is not equal to b' end if