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indentation
  1. The act of indenting or state of being indented.
  2. A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything
  3. A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
  4. (typography) 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.
  5. A measure of the distance from the flush line
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “True enough, there was a tell-tale head-shaped indentation on my pillow this morning, but that could mean anything.”
      “Use a craft knife to cut an indentation in the back of the molding pieces at the location of every clip.”
      “I typically an indentation to highlight quotes in my writing.”
indent
  1. A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
  2. A stamp; an impression.
  3. A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.
  4. A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “There was a large indent on the table for an unknown reason. Other than that, its gray surface looked smooth and sturdy.”
      “Hawthorn refused to approve the indent for silk scarves.”
indention
  1. The act of indenting a line of text by including blank space at the beginning
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “His hand glowed and the gigantic sword fell to the ground, leaving a small indention where it had fallen.”
      “This lapel features a triangular indention where the lapel joins the collar.”
      “Use a scrap piece of wood the same size as the door frame top, and set it in the front of the form to make a frame indention.”
indentedness
  1. the state or property of being indented
indenter
  1. A device or program that indents
  2. Examples:
    1. “The indenter is joined to a bending beam that measures the force applied by a pair of transducers.”
      “The mean pressure between the surface of the indenter and the indentation is equal to the load divided by the projected area of the indentation.”
      “This number refers to the weight required for a diamond indenter to produce an indentation in the coating.”
indenting
indentations
  1. plural of indentation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “To this day, one can stretch one's fingers and thumb to fit the indentations on its smooth surface.”
      “It got cold on the gun decks and the indentations in the brass monkey would get smaller than the iron cannonballs they were holding.”
      “The data are stored in tiny sheets of plastic polymer film as tiny indentations just 10 nanometers, or millionths of a millimeter, in diameter.”
indentings
indentions
  1. plural of indention
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The remaining plinths which held the monument have large indentions in them as if someone went at them with a hatchet.”
      “She could see silver indentions along the blade in elegant curves gleaming in the moonlight.”
      “Walking over she looked down and noticed that each step was a crystal clear tile with indentions that traced out faces.”
indenters
  1. plural of indenter
  2. Examples:
    1. “Unfortunately, there are no well-defined spherical indenters available for indentation tests at the subcellular level.”
      “Such large-scale clinical indenters average the mechanical properties of the biological tissue over a large volume, i.e., over several square millimetres of material.”
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