indention

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But a wrong letter, a space in the wrong place, a wrong indention, a wrong punctuation mark, was an error that cost a ten "word" penalty against the total score.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus the arrangement above necessitates placing in subdivision "Balls" all copper balls, whereas indention under proximate genus "metal" would have brought all metal balls together.

From The Classification of Patents by United States Patent Office

The indention of the first line catches the eye of the reader and notifies him silently to stop for a summary of his impressions before starting a somewhat different phase of the story.

From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle)

"See, Walter," he exclaimed pointing to a square indention in the soft soil.

From The Romance of Elaine Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine" by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

Any line containing one word only at the end of a paragraph ought to overlap the indention of the first line of the next paragraph.

From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Hitchcock, Frederick H.