The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph
The distance by which a segment of text is offset from the usual left-hand margin The beginnings of paragraphs are often (but not always) indented by from one to three ems (An em is the width of a capital M in the current font ) Itemised text is also usually indented, often by the standard paragraph indentation Such indented text is often used to visually demarcate a section of text from the main running text
a way of indenting to clearly show that a block of code is a separate thought (from other pieces of code surrounding it) for example, if (a eq b) then print *, ' a is equal to b' else print *, ' a is not equal to b' end if is clearer and easier to read than is if (a eq b) then print *, ' a is equal to b' else print *, ' a is not equal to b' end if
Indentation means blank space at the beginning of a line Most programming languages have conventions for using indentation to illuminate the structure of the program, and Emacs has special commands to adjust indentation See section 18 Indentation
the act of cutting into an edge with toothlike notches or angular incisions the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)
{i} blank space left between a margin and the beginning of a printed or written line; act of indenting a document; groove; deep recess, niche; dent, notch
(1) the extent of deformation by the indentor point of any one of a number of standard hardness testing instruments; (2) a recess in the surface of a hose