Word Finder - indentation

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The act of indenting or state of being indented.

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A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything

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indentations of the coast

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A recess or sharp depression in any surface.

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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.

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A measure of the distance from the flush line

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an indentation of one em

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A division unit of a piece of law distinguished by its indentation or by a dash

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The bay itself is a shallow indentation of the coast, and is fringed with high picturesque cliffs, breached in places by steepsided narrow gullies.

Cherbourg is situated at the mouth of the Divette, on a small bay at the apex of the indentation formed by the northern shore of the peninsula of Cotentin.

The lower jaw should be strongly protruding, the ears should be small and erect, the forehead deeply wrinkled with an indentation between the eyes, known as the "stop."

The American coasts are for the most part mountainous and unbroken, the chief indentation being the Gulf of California; but the general type is departed from in the extreme north and south, the southern coast of South America consisting of bays and fjords with scattered islands, while the coast of Alaska is similarly broken in the south and becomes low and swampy towards the north.

The Gulf of Gabes, the Syrtis Minor of the ancients, is a semicircular shallow indentation of the Mediterranean, about 50 m.

The Atlantic coast-line of the territory has one deep indentation - the Gulf of San Matias - but, owing to the arid surroundings, there are no ports or towns upon it.

The top has a rough, shallow, V-shaped indentation.

This intervening space comprises the wedge-shaped desert of Kach Gandava (Gandava), which is thrust westwards from the Indus as a deep indentation into the mountains, and, above it, the central uplands which figure on the map as " British Baluchistan " - where lies Quetta.

Recently, with the introduction of instrumented indentation hardness, it has become possible to measure the indent under the applied force.

This is a very neat way of doing it if you're producing HTML and using CSS to produce the indentation that you want.

To obtain a reliable estimate of indentation modulus, each indentation modulus, each indentation experiment was repeated 20 times at 50 µm intervals.

Text-indent changes the default indentation of the list items set by number register Pi.

Options are available to output page numbers, paragraph indentation plus the text tolerance level override for varying sizes of text.

To obtain a reliable estimate of indentation modulus, each indentation experiment was repeated 20 times at 50 µm intervals.

The indentation effect might even be at work in the way porous silicon (with a myriad of nanoscopic filaments) emits light.

The only considerable indentation is at Durban, about two-thirds of the distance from the Umtamvuna to the Tugela, where there is a wide and shallow bay, covering with its islands nearly 8 sq.

The estuary, which is one of the best roadsteads in Europe and could accommodate the combined fleets of Europe, is a deep and thoroughly sheltered indentation among chalky cliffs, running east and west for nearly 4 m., with a width of threequarters of a mile, narrowing to 930 yds.

Its principal bays are Vineyard Haven Harbor, a deep indentation at the northernmost angle of the island; and, on the eastern coast, Edgartown Harbor and Katama Bay, both formed by the juxtaposition of Chappaquiddick Island.

If there's any indentation or additional edges on either side, the image will be altered.

Engraved invitations will have indentation in the back whereas thermography will not.

Many bassists prefer a stubby pick with a molded indentation for an easy grip and solid resonance.

When it's cooled a bit, you'll notice an indentation around the wick.

Remelt the remaining wax in the pan and carefully pour it into this indentation until the top is level.

In block format, all lines are left justified and they require no indentation.

The other parts of the letter are left justified with no indentation.

Using your thumb make an indentation in the center of the ball.

If your finger leaves an indentation, it is still rare.

A medium steak will give a little bit and not leave an indentation.

A medium rare steak will have some give to it, but not so much that your finger leaves an indentation on its surface.

Lesser shapewear will bind on the stomach or the thighs and might even create a tell-tale indentation.

On the north-west rock the caves known as the grottoes of Pan and Apollo were cleared out; these consist of a slight high-arched indentation immediately to the east of the Clepsydra and a double and somewhat deeper cavern a little farther to the east.

The bay of the Yana, east of the delta of the Lena, is a wide indentation sheltered on the north by the islands of New Siberia.

As the visitor looks from the square up the indentation he sees on a height to the right a venerable temple ruin, and, directly in front, Acro-Corinth, rising over 1 50o ft.

A chain of hills culminating in the Paps of Jura - Beinn-an-Oir (2571 ft.) and Beinn Chaolais (2407 ft.) - runs the whole length of the island, interrupted only by Tarbert loch, an arm of the sea, which forms an indentation nearly 6 m.

It extends inland about 31 m., and marks a deep indentation of the coast like the Gulf of Uraba.

I'm putting this down to operator error from the housing taking a knock causing the indentation.

Then use the punch hanging nearby to make an indentation in the correct box on your control card.

Please do not use indentation, add blank lines or align the right hand side of the text.

There was a very slight indentation about the depth of a hair on the housing back where the o-ring seats.

Her poem is first spring day the deep indentation in my pillow I enjoyed the contrast in this haiku.

Ideally you will both have contact at the small indentation situated midway down the inner thigh of your right legs.

Do this several times, until the indentation is clearly visible.

At the lower end of the indentation is the modern public square, shaded by a gigantic and picturesque plane tree, nourished by the surplus water of Pirene.

Second, though the brittleness should be lessened somewhat by the decrease in the extent to which the continuity of the strong matrix is broken up by the graphite skeleton, yet this effect is outweighed greatly by that of the rapid substitution in the matrix of the brittle cementite for the' very ductile copper-like ferrite, so that the brittleness increases continuously (RS), from that of the very grey graphitic cast irons, which, like that of soapstone, is so slight that the metal can endure severe shock and even indentation without breaking, to that of the pure white cast iron which is about as brittle as porcelain.

The Gulf of Morosquillo, a broad shallow indentation of the coast south of Cartagena, receives the waters of the Rio Sinu, at the mouth of which is the small port of Cispata.

The harbour, which is the best on the north coast of South America, is formed by an indentation of the coastline shut in by two long islands lying parallel to the mainland.