Indentation

An indentation can mean two things:

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• To make notches in something or form deep recesses in a coastline for instance.
• To place text farther to the right to separate it from surrounding text.

The first meaning is also applied in hardness measurement as in indentation hardness.

Related Topics:
Hardness - Indentation hardness

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For an example of the second meaning, this is an indentation of one space:

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:Indented block

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and this is an indentation of two spaces:

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::Indented block 2

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In the written form of many American and European languages, an indentation is used at the beginning of a line to signal the start of a new paragraph.

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