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
When quotation marks occur at the beginning of a line of poetry, they should go back into the indention space.
From Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
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 Garland Greever
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
Write verse as verse; do not give it equal indention or length of line with prose.
From The Century Handbook of Writing by Garland Greever
