indentation

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• /ˌɪndɛnˈteɪʃən/
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• rhymes with -eɪʃən
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• CMU ARPABET: IH2 N D EH2 N T EY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English indent Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English indentation From indent + -ation.

78 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: назъбване (nazǎbvane) — act of indenting or state of being indented
• Czech: odsazení — act of indenting or state of being indented
• Finnish: hammastus — act of indenting or state of being indented
• Finnish: sisennys — act of indenting or state of being indented
• Finnish: koloaminen — act of indenting or state of being indented
• French: indentation — act of indenting or state of being indented
• Eastern Mari: абзац (abzac) — act of indenting or state of being indented
• Russian: индента́ция (indentácija) — act of indenting or state of being indented
• Slovak: odsadenie — act of indenting or state of being indented
• Slovak: odsadzovanie — act of indenting or state of being indented
• Swedish: indentering — act of indenting or state of being indented
• Bulgarian: зъбец (zǎbec) — notch or recess in a margin or border
• Finnish: kolo — notch or recess in a margin or border
• Finnish: hammastus — notch or recess in a margin or border
• German: Delle — notch or recess in a margin or border
• Irish: mant — notch or recess in a margin or border
• Italian: indentazione — notch or recess in a margin or border
• Italian: recesso — notch or recess in a margin or border
• Italian: incavo — notch or recess in a margin or border
• Portuguese: indentação — notch or recess in a margin or border
• Russian: вы́рез (výrez) — notch or recess in a margin or border
• Russian: вы́ступ (výstup) — notch or recess in a margin or border
• Turkish: çentik — notch or recess in a margin or border
• Turkish: girinti — notch or recess in a margin or border
• Bulgarian: вдлъбнатина (vdlǎbnatina) — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• Czech: prohlubeň — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• Finnish: kolo — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• Finnish: painauma — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• Finnish: syvennys — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• German: Einbuchtung — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• German: Vertiefung — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• Italian: incavo — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• Māori: hāraunga — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• Russian: вмя́тина (vmjátina) — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• Russian: углубле́ние (uglublénije) — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• Slovak: preliačina — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• Slovak: priehlbina — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• Spanish: muesca — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• Spanish: entrante — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• Spanish: indentación — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• Turkish: çukur — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• Ottoman Turkish: چوقور (çukur) — recess or sharp depression in a surface
• Bulgarian: абзац (abzac) — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Bulgarian: отстъп (otstǎp) — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Catalan: sagnat — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Chinese Mandarin: 縮進 /缩进 (suōjìn) — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Czech: odsazení — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Finnish: sisennys — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Finnish: sisentäminen — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• French: indentation — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• German: Einrückung — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Hebrew: הֲזָחָה (hazakhá) — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Hungarian: behúzás — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Italian: indentazione — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Eastern Mari: абзац (abzac) — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Norwegian: innrykk — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Polish: akapit — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Portuguese: indentação — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Russian: абза́ц (abzác) — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Russian: о́тступ (ótstup) — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Slovak: odsadenie — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Slovak: odsadzovanie — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Spanish: sangría — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Spanish: indentación — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Swedish: indrag — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Ukrainian: абзац (abzac) — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Ukrainian: відступ (vidstup) — act of beginning a line at a distance from the flush line
• Czech: odsazeni — measure of distance to the flush line
• Finnish: sisennys — measure of distance to the flush line
• German: Einzug — measure of distance to the flush line
• Slovak: odsadenie — measure of distance to the flush line
• Bulgarian: тире́ (tiré) — a division unit of a piece of law
• French: tiret — a division unit of a piece of law
• German: Spiegelstrich — a division unit of a piece of law
• Italian: trattino — a division unit of a piece of law
• Polish: tiret — a division unit of a piece of law
• Portuguese: travessão — a division unit of a piece of law
• Spanish: guion — a division unit of a piece of law