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

However, it is evident that indention carried to its full extant, useful as it is in keeping analogous things together, would make the printing of schedules complex and unwieldy.

From The Classification of Patents by United States Patent Office

The indention at the beginning, and usually the incomplete line at the end, mark its visible limits.

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)

The left-hand margin should be three-quarters of an inch, with paragraph indention an inch more.

From The Etiquette of To-day by Ordway, Edith B.

Write verse as verse; do not give it equal indention or length of line with prose.

From The Century Handbook of Writing by Greever, Garland