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 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
Quotation marks, indention, smaller type, or any of the marks which distinguish quoted matter are sufficient.
From The Uses of Italic A Primer of Information Regarding the Origin and Uses of Italic Letters by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
There was a little indention here—a tiny cove.
From Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands by Alice B. Emerson
However, it is evident that indention carried to its full extant, useful as it is in keeping analogous things together, would make the printing of schedules complex and unwieldy.
From The Classification of Patents by United States Patent Office
