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indention

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English

Etymology

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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 -ion

English indention

From indent + -ion.

Pronunciation

enPR: ĭn-dĕn′shən^[1]
(Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈdɛn.ʃən/
(Australia) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈden.ʃən/
(New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ənˈden.ʃən/
Rhymes: -ɛnʃən
Hyphenation: in‧den‧tion^[1]

Noun

indention (countable and uncountable, plural indentions)

Senses related to indent (verb):
1. The process of indenting.^[1]
2. The state of being indented.^[1]
(typography) An empty space at the beginning of a line to signal the start of a new paragraph.^[1]
Hypernym: whitespace
(archaic) Synonym of indentation / dent.^[1]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 “indention”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Further reading

“indention”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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