indention

English

Etymology

From indent +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

Noun

indention (countable and uncountable, plural indentions)

  1. Senses related to indent (verb):
    1. The process of indenting.[1]
    2. The state of being indented.[1]
  2. (typography) An empty space at the beginning of a line to signal the start of a new paragraph.[1]
    Hypernym: whitespace
  3. (archaic) Synonym of indentation / dent.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 “indention”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Further reading

  • “indention”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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