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

Quotation marks, indention, smaller type, or any of the marks which distinguish quoted matter are sufficient.

From The Uses of Italic A Primer of Information Regarding the Origin and Uses of Italic Letters by Hamilton, Frederick W. (Frederick William)

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.

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

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