tabbing

English

Verb

tabbing

1. present participle and gerund of tab

Noun

tabbing (countable and uncountable, plural tabbings)

1. (typography) Tabulation.
   • 2003, Stephen J. Hartnett, Incarceration Nation (page 23)

     These juxtapositions of perspective are generally indicated typographically, by a verse being tabbed in or out from the one above it: such tabbings indicate breaks in time, space, or voice.