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

There was a little indention here—a tiny cove.

From Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands by Emerson, Alice B.

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)

When a heading runs over one line, use hanging indention; that is, do not allow the second line to run back to the left-hand margin, but indent it.

From The Century Handbook of Writing by Greever, Garland

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