INDENTING

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INDENTING, also indentation, indention. The practice of setting a line of text further from the left margin than other lines, especially to start a PARAGRAPH. A poem or other block of text, especially a quotation, may also be indented so as to make it stand out from the surrounding text. Indenting is common in dictionaries and indexes, where it usually reverses the practice for text, effectively indenting every line except that of the headword. The space left by indenting is an indent(at)ion.

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